fix: review findings for lazysecrets list: recent means the last 90 days, cache saves lock and keep deletions and the TUI's cursors, failed lists aren't retried, one expiry rule

chore: updated docs
docs: links.md is sharing.md
2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00 · 2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00 · 2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00 · 2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00 · 2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00 · 2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
45 changed files with 2100 additions and 215 deletions
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ A terminal UI for finding, reading and sharing secrets. Inspired by the fantasti
  CLI, `sops`, `git`). No config file needed.
 - **Search everything**: `ctrl+s` searches every source at once, with
  fzf-style matching.
- **Share links**: Share `lazysecrets://` links with colleagues. A colleague opens it
-  with their own access, from the terminal or with a click in the browser
-  or chat. `.env` files can be shared too, as a link encrypted with a
-  secret your team can read.
+- **Share links**: Share `lazysecrets://` links with colleagues.
 - **Neovim integration**: via [lazysecrets.nvim](https://github.com/karleinarb/lazysecrets.nvim)
 - **Careful with values**: values stay hidden until you reveal them, and
  copied values are cleared from the clipboard after 30 seconds.
@@ -80,19 +77,37 @@ use most:
 | `?` | every key, searchable |
 | `q` | quit |

+
+## Integration
+Lazysecret let you integrate it into your workflows by `lazysecrets` `list`/`get`/`open`
+
+Here is an example of implementing a picker in `fzf`:
+```sh
+lazysecrets list | fzf --ansi --delimiter='\t' --with-nth='2..-3' --nth='2..' --accept-nth=-1 \
+  --header 'enter: link · ctrl-o: open · ctrl-y: copy value · ctrl-x: copy and close' \
+  --bind 'ctrl-o:become(lazysecrets open --action go --account {-2} {-1})' \
+  --bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(lazysecrets get --account {-2} {-1} | pbcopy)+change-header(Copied the value of {3})' \
+  --bind 'ctrl-x:become(lazysecrets get --account {-2} {-1} | pbcopy)'
+```
+
+![fzf-example](docs/assets/fzf-example.png)
+
+More defails in the [Integration](docs/integration.md) docs
+
 ## Docs

 - [Keys](docs/keys.md): every key, Go to, the layout, and rebinding keys
 - [Azure Key Vault](docs/azure.md): accounts, permissions, pinned vaults
 - [Databricks](docs/databricks.md): profiles and Key Vault-backed scopes
 - [SOPS and .env files](docs/repos.md): which repos and files, decrypting
- [Links](docs/links.md): sharing, opening, `lazysecrets get` in scripts,
-  and opening links from the browser and chat
+- [Sharing](docs/sharing.md): links to secrets, encrypted env files, and
+  opening links, also from the browser and chat
+- [Integration](docs/integration.md): how lazysecrets can integrate into other systems
 - [Custom commands](docs/custom-commands.md): run your own commands on a
  secret
 - [Config](docs/config.md): every option, themes, layered configs, the
  state file
- [Development](docs/development.md): building, tests, how changes land and
+- [Development](docs/development.md): building, tests, pull requests and
  releasing

 ## Privacy
@@ -37,10 +37,15 @@ func value(ctx context.Context, providers []provider.Provider, st *store.Store,
 	return v, err
 }

-// readKey is value, also returning the version read.
+// readKey is value, also returning the version read. The account asked
+// for (--account) goes first, else the one that last read it.
 func readKey(ctx context.Context, providers []provider.Provider, st *store.Store, r ref.Ref) (provider.SecretValue, string, error) {
 	key := r
 	key.Version = ""
 	node := st.Node(key.String())
-	return ref.Read(ctx, providers, r, node.Account, node.Source)
+	account, source := node.Account, node.Source
+	if r.Account != "" && r.Account != account {
+		account, source = r.Account, ""
+	}
+	return ref.Read(ctx, providers, r, account, source)
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"cmp"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"os/signal"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+
+	"charm.land/lipgloss/v2"
+
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/expiry"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/listing"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/store"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ui/icons"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ui/styles"
+)
+
+// listCmd prints every source, vault and secret lazysecrets can find, one
+// per line, for fzf, editor pickers and scripts:
+//
+//	lazysecrets list | fzf --ansi --delimiter='\t' --with-nth='2..-3' --nth='2..' --accept-nth=-1
+//
+// Each line is the kind, a mark (✗ or ⚠, ★, ◷ and the provider's icon),
+// the name, a status (why it couldn't be read, or that it has expired or
+// expires soon; else empty), its note (muted, or empty), the account and
+// the link, tab-separated. The mark has a field of its own so a search can
+// leave it out (fzf --nth), and ^prod finds names starting with prod. The
+// name is coloured from the theme,
+// with the provider's icon (as in the TUI: --icons, LAZYSECRETS_ICONS,
+// ui.icons); the link never is.
+//
+// What's cached prints at once; what's missing or older than --max-age
+// follows as it loads. A list that can't be read is a line too, as it
+// fails: the vault or source, then ✗ and why in the theme's error colour.
+// They're in the output rather than on stderr, which would draw over fzf.
+func listCmd(providers []provider.Provider, st *store.Store, cachePath string, timeout func(provider.Kind) time.Duration, theme styles.Styles, withIcons, withRecent bool, expiryWarn time.Duration, args []string, out io.Writer) error {
+	fs := flag.NewFlagSet("list", flag.ContinueOnError)
+	cached := fs.Bool("cached", false, "only what's cached, and repos: load nothing from Azure or Databricks")
+	maxAge := fs.Duration("max-age", 2*time.Minute, "load cached lists older than this again")
+	format := fs.String("format", "text", "text: kind, mark, name, status, note, account and link, tab-separated; json: an object per line")
+	color := fs.String("color", "always", "colour the names (text): always or never; fzf needs --ansi")
+	iconsOn := fs.Bool("icons", withIcons, "put the provider's Nerd Font icon before names (text)")
+	stars := fs.Bool("stars", true, "put ★ before starred names, in the theme's favouriteColor (text)")
+	recent := fs.Bool("recent", withRecent, "put ◷ before names used lately, in mutedColor (text; default ui.recentIcon)")
+	notes := fs.Bool("notes", true, "start a note with a note icon (✎ without --icons) (text; the note is printed either way)")
+	expiry := fs.Bool("expiry", true, "mark and say which have expired (✗ expired) or expire within ui.expiryWarningDays (⚠ expires in 12d) (text)")
+	kinds := fs.String("kind", "", "only these kinds, comma-separated: "+strings.Join(listing.Kinds, ", ")+" (vault: also scopes and repo files)")
+	showErrors := fs.Bool("errors", true, "list the lists that can't be read, with why (text: ✗ lines; json: \"error\")")
+	if err := fs.Parse(args); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if fs.NArg() > 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("usage: lazysecrets list [--kind secret,…] [--cached] [--max-age 2m] [--format text|json]")
+	}
+	var only []string
+	for k := range strings.SplitSeq(*kinds, ",") {
+		if k = strings.TrimSpace(k); k == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if !slices.Contains(listing.Kinds, k) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("--kind: %q is not one of %s", k, strings.Join(listing.Kinds, ", "))
+		}
+		only = append(only, k)
+	}
+	if *color != "always" && *color != "never" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("--color: %q is not always or never", *color)
+	}
+	now := time.Now()
+	m := marks{theme: theme, icons: icons.None, stars: *stars, recent: *recent, expiry: *expiry,
+		color: *color == "always", warn: expiryWarn, now: now}
+	if *iconsOn {
+		m.icons = icons.NerdFont
+	}
+	var write func(listing.Entry) error
+	switch *format {
+	case "text":
+		write = func(e listing.Entry) error {
+			colored := *color == "always"
+			mark := m.of(e)
+			name := nameOf(e, theme, colored)
+			// Why it couldn't be read (vaults, sources), or when it
+			// expires (secrets, keys, certificates): never both.
+			status := errorOf(e, theme, colored)
+			if status == "" && *expiry {
+				status = expiryOf(e, theme, expiryWarn, now, colored)
+			}
+			note := noteOf(e, theme, m.icons, *notes, colored)
+			// A tab or line break in a name would break the line up.
+			_, err := fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", e.Kind, mark, oneLine.Replace(name), oneLine.Replace(status),
+				oneLine.Replace(note), e.Account, e.Link)
+			return err
+		}
+	case "json":
+		enc := json.NewEncoder(out)
+		enc.SetEscapeHTML(false)
+		write = func(e listing.Entry) error { return enc.Encode(e) }
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("--format: %q is not text or json", *format)
+	}
+
+	// When the reader goes away (a pick in fzf), writing fails instead of
+	// killing the process, so what loaded is still saved.
+	signal.Notify(make(chan os.Signal, 1), syscall.SIGPIPE)
+	var gone error
+	emit := func(e listing.Entry) error {
+		if e.Error != "" && !*showErrors {
+			return nil
+		}
+		if err := write(e); err != nil {
+			gone = err
+			return err
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	f := cachefile.New()
+	if cachePath != "" {
+		f = cachefile.Read(cachePath)
+	}
+	f, loaded := listing.Run(context.Background(), listing.Options{
+		Providers: providers, Cache: f, MaxAge: *maxAge, Cached: *cached, Kinds: only, Timeout: timeout,
+		Mark: func(link, account string) listing.Marks {
+			n := st.Node(link)
+			return listing.Marks{Starred: n.StarredFor(account), Recent: n.UsedLately(now),
+				LastUsed: n.LastUsed, Uses: n.Uses, Note: n.Note}
+		},
+	}, emit)
+	// Only what was loaded: list never moves a cursor, so the TUI's stay.
+	if cachePath != "" && loaded {
+		f.Cursor = nil
+		if err := cachefile.Save(cachePath, f, cachefile.Keep(providers), time.Now()); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	if gone != nil && !errors.Is(gone, syscall.EPIPE) {
+		return gone
+	}
+	return nil // or the reader has what it wanted
+}
+
+var oneLine = strings.NewReplacer("\t", " ", "\r\n", " ", "\n", " ", "\r", " ")
+
+// noteOf is the entry's note, muted, after a note icon (✎ without Nerd
+// Font icons) with icon; or "".
+func noteOf(e listing.Entry, theme styles.Styles, iconSet icons.Set, icon, color bool) string {
+	if e.Note == "" {
+		return ""
+	}
+	note := e.Note
+	if icon {
+		note = cmp.Or(iconSet.Note, "✎") + " " + note
+	}
+	return renderer(color)(theme.Muted, note)
+}
+
+// expiryOf says that a secret, key or certificate has expired, in red,
+// or when it will if that's within warn (expires in 12d), in yellow, or
+// is "". Its mark (✗, ⚠) is before the name.
+func expiryOf(e listing.Entry, theme styles.Styles, warn time.Duration, now time.Time, color bool) string {
+	render := renderer(color)
+	switch state, left := expiry.Of(e.Expires, now, warn); state {
+	case expiry.Expired:
+		return render(theme.Error, "expired")
+	case expiry.Soon:
+		return render(theme.Warning, "expires in "+expiry.Left(left))
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// errorOf is why a list couldn't be read, in red, or "". Its mark (✗)
+// is before the name.
+func errorOf(e listing.Entry, theme styles.Styles, color bool) string {
+	return renderer(color)(theme.Error, e.Error)
+}
+
+// nameOf is an entry's name for the text format: the path with the
+// item's own name standing out, and the account.
+func nameOf(e listing.Entry, theme styles.Styles, color bool) string {
+	render := renderer(color)
+	var name string
+	if n := len(e.Path); n > 0 {
+		if n > 1 {
+			name = render(theme.Muted, strings.Join(e.Path[:n-1], " / ")+" / ")
+		}
+		name += e.Path[n-1]
+	}
+	if e.AccountLabel != "" {
+		name += render(theme.Muted, " · "+e.AccountLabel)
+	}
+	return name
+}
+
+// marks says what goes before the name, in a field of its own so a
+// search leaves it out: ✗ in red when something's wrong (it couldn't be
+// read, or has expired) or ⚠ when it expires within warn; ★ for a starred
+// entry and ◷ for one used lately, as the TUI marks them; then the
+// provider's icon. The marks are right-aligned in room for every kind
+// turned on, so they sit by the icon and names line up.
+type marks struct {
+	theme                        styles.Styles
+	icons                        icons.Set
+	stars, recent, expiry, color bool
+	warn                         time.Duration // ui.expiryWarningDays
+	now                          time.Time
+}
+
+func (m marks) of(e listing.Entry) string {
+	render := renderer(m.color)
+	var parts []string
+	room := 0 // marks turned on
+	mark := func(on bool, st lipgloss.Style, s string) {
+		room++
+		if on {
+			parts = append(parts, render(st, s))
+		}
+	}
+	// What's wrong, then what to watch: room for one of them.
+	state := expiry.None
+	if m.expiry {
+		state, _ = expiry.Of(e.Expires, m.now, m.warn)
+	}
+	switch {
+	case e.Error != "" || state == expiry.Expired:
+		mark(true, m.theme.Error, "✗")
+	case state == expiry.Soon:
+		mark(true, m.theme.Warning, "⚠")
+	default:
+		mark(false, m.theme.Error, "")
+	}
+	if m.stars {
+		mark(e.Starred, m.theme.Favourite, "★")
+	}
+	if m.recent {
+		mark(e.Recent, m.theme.Muted, "◷")
+	}
+	pad := strings.Repeat("  ", room-len(parts)) // each mark and its space
+	kind := provider.Kind("")
+	for _, k := range []provider.Kind{provider.KindAzure, provider.KindDatabricks, provider.KindRepo} {
+		if strings.EqualFold(string(k), e.Provider) {
+			kind = k
+		}
+	}
+	if icon := strings.TrimSpace(m.icons.Prefix(kind)); icon != "" {
+		parts = append(parts, render(m.theme.Kind(kind), icon))
+	} else if len(parts) == 0 {
+		pad = strings.TrimSuffix(pad, " ") // no mark after the room
+	}
+	return pad + strings.Join(parts, " ")
+}
+
+func renderer(color bool) func(lipgloss.Style, string) string {
+	return func(st lipgloss.Style, s string) string {
+		if !color || s == "" {
+			return s
+		}
+		return st.Render(s)
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/listing"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ui/icons"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ui/styles"
+)
+
+func TestListNames(t *testing.T) {
+	e := listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Path: []string{"platform-prod", "kv-app-prod", "db-password"}, AccountLabel: "alice"}
+	if got := nameOf(e, styles.Default(), false); got != "platform-prod / kv-app-prod / db-password · alice" {
+		t.Errorf("plain: %q", got)
+	}
+	// The item's own name isn't muted with its path.
+	if got := nameOf(e, styles.Default(), true); !strings.Contains(got, "\x1b[mdb-password") {
+		t.Errorf("name not set apart: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListMarks(t *testing.T) {
+	az := icons.NerdFont.Azure
+	plain := marks{theme: styles.Default(), icons: icons.NerdFont, stars: true}
+	noIcons := plain
+	noIcons.icons = icons.None
+	colored := noIcons
+	colored.color = true
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		m    marks
+		e    listing.Entry
+		want string
+	}{
+		// Room for the status mark and the star, so names line up.
+		{plain, listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Starred: true}, "  ★ " + az},
+		{plain, listing.Entry{Provider: "azure"}, "    " + az},
+		{marks{icons: icons.NerdFont}, listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Starred: true}, "  " + az},
+		{noIcons, listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Starred: true}, "  ★"},
+		{marks{}, listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Starred: true}, " "},
+		{colored, listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Starred: true}, "  " + styles.Default().Favourite.Render("★")},
+	} {
+		if got := c.m.of(c.e); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("%+v: %q, want %q", c.e, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListRecentMarks(t *testing.T) {
+	az := icons.NerdFont.Azure
+	m := marks{icons: icons.NerdFont, stars: true, recent: true}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		e    listing.Entry
+		want string
+	}{
+		// Right-aligned in room for three: by the icon, names lined up.
+		{listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Starred: true, Recent: true}, "  ★ ◷ " + az},
+		{listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Recent: true}, "    ◷ " + az},
+		{listing.Entry{Provider: "azure"}, "      " + az},
+	} {
+		if got := m.of(c.e); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("%+v: %q, want %q", c.e, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListExpiry(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2026, 10, 14, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	warn := 30 * 24 * time.Hour
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		expires time.Time
+		want    string
+	}{
+		{time.Time{}, ""},
+		{now.Add(-time.Hour), "expired"},
+		{now.Add(12*24*time.Hour + time.Hour), "expires in 12d"},
+		{now.Add(5 * time.Hour), "expires in 5h"},
+		{now.Add(60 * 24 * time.Hour), ""},
+	} {
+		if got := expiryOf(listing.Entry{Expires: c.expires}, styles.Default(), warn, now, false); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("expires %v: %q, want %q", c.expires, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+	if got := expiryOf(listing.Entry{Expires: now.Add(-time.Hour)}, styles.Default(), warn, now, true); got != styles.Default().Error.Render("expired") {
+		t.Errorf("expired isn't red: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListNotes(t *testing.T) {
+	e := listing.Entry{Note: "rotate in May"}
+	if got := noteOf(e, styles.Default(), icons.NerdFont, true, false); got != icons.NerdFont.Note+" rotate in May" {
+		t.Errorf("icons: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := noteOf(e, styles.Default(), icons.None, true, false); got != "✎ rotate in May" {
+		t.Errorf("no icons: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := noteOf(e, styles.Default(), icons.NerdFont, false, false); got != "rotate in May" {
+		t.Errorf("--notes=false: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := noteOf(listing.Entry{}, styles.Default(), icons.NerdFont, true, true); got != "" {
+		t.Errorf("no note: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListStatusMark(t *testing.T) {
+	az := icons.NerdFont.Azure
+	now := time.Date(2026, 10, 14, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	m := marks{icons: icons.NerdFont, stars: true, expiry: true, warn: 30 * 24 * time.Hour, now: now}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		e    listing.Entry
+		want string
+	}{
+		// Right-aligned in room for two, as with ★ and ◷.
+		{listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Error: "403 Forbidden"}, "  ✗ " + az},
+		{listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Expires: now.Add(-time.Hour)}, "  ✗ " + az},
+		{listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Expires: now.Add(-time.Hour), Starred: true}, "✗ ★ " + az},
+		{listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Expires: now.Add(5 * 24 * time.Hour)}, "  ⚠ " + az},
+		{listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Expires: now.Add(60 * 24 * time.Hour), Starred: true}, "  ★ " + az},
+	} {
+		if got := m.of(c.e); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("%+v: %q, want %q", c.e, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+	m.expiry = false // --expiry=false: no ⚠ or ✗ for expiry; errors still
+	if got := m.of(listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Expires: now.Add(-time.Hour)}); got != "    "+az {
+		t.Errorf("--expiry=false: %q", got)
+	}
+	m.expiry, m.color, m.theme = true, true, styles.Default()
+	if got := m.of(listing.Entry{Error: "403"}); !strings.Contains(got, styles.Default().Error.Render("✗")) {
+		t.Errorf("not a red ✗: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := m.of(listing.Entry{Expires: now.Add(time.Hour)}); !strings.Contains(got, styles.Default().Warning.Render("⚠")) {
+		t.Errorf("not a yellow ⚠: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	e := listing.Entry{Provider: "azure", Path: []string{"platform-prod", "kv-restricted"}, Error: "403 Forbidden"}
+	if got := nameOf(e, styles.Default(), false); got != "platform-prod / kv-restricted" {
+		t.Errorf("the name has more: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := errorOf(e, styles.Default(), false); got != "403 Forbidden" {
+		t.Errorf("plain: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := errorOf(e, styles.Default(), true); got != styles.Default().Error.Render("403 Forbidden") {
+		t.Errorf("why isn't red: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := errorOf(listing.Entry{}, styles.Default(), true); got != "" {
+		t.Errorf("no error: %q", got)
+	}
+}
@@ -89,6 +89,32 @@ func cmpOr(a, b string) string {
 	return b
 }

+// refArg parses get's and open's arguments: a reference, and optionally
+// the account to use when several could (lazysecrets list's column) and,
+// for open, what to do with it rather than asking (--action).
+func refArg(cmd string, args []string) (r ref.Ref, action string, err error) {
+	fs := flag.NewFlagSet(cmd, flag.ContinueOnError)
+	account := fs.String("account", "", "the account to use when several could, as lazysecrets list prints it")
+	usage := "usage: lazysecrets get [--account <account>] <ref>"
+	act := new(string)
+	if cmd == "open" {
+		act = fs.String("action", "", "do this rather than ask: go (to it), copy (go, and copy its value) or show (go, and show it)")
+		usage = "usage: lazysecrets open [--account <account>] [--action go|copy|show] <ref>"
+	}
+	if err := fs.Parse(args); err != nil {
+		return r, "", err
+	}
+	if fs.NArg() != 1 {
+		return r, "", errors.New(usage)
+	}
+	if _, ok := app.OpenActions[*act]; *act != "" && !ok {
+		return r, "", fmt.Errorf("--action: %q is not go, copy or show", *act)
+	}
+	r, err = ref.Parse(fs.Arg(0))
+	r.Account = *account
+	return r, *act, err
+}
+
 // defaultConfigPath is $LAZYSECRETS_CONFIG_FILE, else config.yaml in the
 // config directory.
 func defaultConfigPath() string {
@@ -115,12 +141,18 @@ func run() error {
 	flag.Usage = func() {
 		fmt.Fprintf(flag.CommandLine.Output(), `Usage:
  lazysecrets [flags]             browse secrets
-  lazysecrets [flags] [open] <ref>
+  lazysecrets [flags] [open [--account <account>] [--action go|copy|show]] <ref>
                                  open a lazysecrets:// link (also a share link),
                                  Key Vault URL, @Microsoft.KeyVault(...) or
                                  {{secrets/scope/key}}
-  lazysecrets [flags] get <ref>   print the value a lazysecrets:// link points at,
+  lazysecrets [flags] get [--account <account>] <ref>
+                                  print the value a lazysecrets:// link points at,
                                  for scripts: VAR=$(lazysecrets get <ref>)
+  lazysecrets [flags] list [--kind secret,…] [--cached] [--max-age 2m] [--format text|json]
+                          [--color always|never] [--icons=false] [--errors=false]
+                                  print every source, vault and secret it can
+                                  find, one per line, for fzf and pickers:
+                                  what's cached at once, then what loads
  lazysecrets [flags] share [--key <secret>] <env file>...
                                  print a link to env files of a repo, encrypted
                                  with a secret's value (default: sharing.key)
@@ -146,7 +178,8 @@ Flags:
 	}

 	var open, getRef *ref.Ref
-	var shareArgs []string
+	var openAction string
+	var shareArgs, listArgs []string
 	printKeys := false
 	switch args := flag.Args(); {
 	case len(args) > 0 && args[0] == "share":
@@ -154,10 +187,12 @@ Flags:
 		if len(shareArgs) == 0 {
 			shareArgs = []string{} // still sharing: says how
 		}
+	case len(args) > 0 && args[0] == "list":
+		listArgs = append([]string{}, args[1:]...) // not nil: listing
 	case len(args) == 1 && args[0] == "keybindings":
 		printKeys = true
-	case len(args) == 2 && args[0] == "get":
-		r, err := ref.Parse(args[1])
+	case len(args) > 0 && args[0] == "get":
+		r, _, err := refArg("get", args[1:])
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
@@ -169,12 +204,12 @@ Flags:
 	case len(args) > 0 && args[0] == "update":
 		return updateCmd(*configPath, args[1:])
 	case len(args) == 0:
-	case args[0] == "open" && len(args) == 2:
-		r, err := ref.Parse(args[1])
+	case args[0] == "open" && len(args) >= 2:
+		r, act, err := refArg("open", args[1:])
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		open = &r
+		open, openAction = &r, act
 	case len(args) == 1 && looksLikeRef(args[0]):
 		// lazysecrets <link>, like lazysecrets open <link>
 		r, err := ref.Parse(args[0])
@@ -263,6 +298,8 @@ Flags:
 		}
 	}

+	recentIcon := cfg.UI.RecentIcon != nil && *cfg.UI.RecentIcon
+
 	// Stars, notes and the layout. Demo mode keeps them in memory, so
 	// sample vaults never end up in the real file.
 	stateDir, err := config.StateDir()
@@ -283,9 +320,14 @@ Flags:
 	var providers []provider.Provider
 	if *demo {
 		// Two Azure accounts, like a personal and an admin login in az.
+		alice, admin := "Azure:alice@example.com/demo", "Azure:admin.alice@example.com/demo"
+		fake.Seed(st, alice, admin)
+		az := fake.Azure(400*time.Millisecond).As(alice, "Azure · alice")
+		// Due soon whenever the demo runs (the tests' dates are fixed).
+		az.Expire("kv-app-prod", "api-key", time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 9).Truncate(24*time.Hour))
 		providers = []provider.Provider{
-			fake.Azure(400*time.Millisecond).As("Azure:alice@example.com/demo", "Azure · alice"),
-			fake.AzureOps(700*time.Millisecond).As("Azure:admin.alice@example.com/demo", "Azure · admin.alice"),
+			az,
+			fake.AzureOps(700*time.Millisecond).As(admin, "Azure · admin.alice"),
 			fake.Databricks(600 * time.Millisecond),
 			fake.Repos(),
 		}
@@ -345,6 +387,13 @@ Flags:
 		defer cancel()
 		return get(ctx, providers, st, *getRef)
 	}
+	if listArgs != nil {
+		cachePath := ""
+		if d, err := config.CacheDir(); err == nil && !*demo && config.On(cfg.Storage.Cache) {
+			cachePath = filepath.Join(d, "cache.json")
+		}
+		return listCmd(providers, st, cachePath, timeoutFor, theme, *icons, recentIcon, time.Duration(expiryDays)*24*time.Hour, listArgs, os.Stdout)
+	}
 	if shareArgs != nil {
 		// The files from a repo, the key from whichever provider it's
 		// in: the longest timeout.
@@ -433,6 +482,8 @@ Flags:
 		ShareKey:       cfg.Sharing.Key,
 		ShareRules:     shareRules(cfg),
 		Open:           open,
+		OpenAction:     openAction,
+		RecentIcon:     recentIcon,
 		Styles:         &theme,
 		DefaultFg:      defaultFg,
 	})
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ it isn't there yet); changes apply when lazysecrets starts again.
 ```yaml
 ui:
  icons: true            # Nerd Font icons (v3+); also --icons=false or LAZYSECRETS_ICONS=0
+  recentIcon: false      # mark items used lately (Recent, R) with ◷, here and in lazysecrets list
  sourcesView: grouped   # or flat; ` toggles it
  collapseGroups: true   # start with the Sources pane's groups folded; enter or space unfolds one
  loadDelay: 150ms       # how long the cursor rests on a row before it loads; 0s loads at once
-  expiryWarningDays: 30  # mark secrets, keys and certificates expiring this soon (⚠ 12d); expired ones get ✗
+  expiryWarningDays: 30  # mark secrets, keys and certificates expiring this soon (⚠ 12d; ⚠ in lazysecrets list); expired ones get ✗
 values:
  revealTimeout: 60s     # hide a revealed value after this long; 0s keeps it shown
  hideOnBlur: true       # hide a revealed value when the terminal loses focus (tmux: focus-events on)
@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@ sharing:               # sharing env files as encrypted links
 ```

 More, each on its own page: [repos](repos.md) (`providers.repos`),
-[sharing env files](links.md#sharing-env-files) (`sharing`), the
-[link handler](links.md#from-the-browser-and-chat) (`linkHandler`),
+[sharing env files](sharing.md#sharing-env-files) (`sharing`), the
+[link handler](sharing.md#from-the-browser-and-chat) (`linkHandler`),
 [keybindings](keys.md#rebinding-keys) (`keybinding`) and
 [custom commands](custom-commands.md) (`customCommands`).

@@ -140,7 +141,8 @@ you: the Sources lists, vaults and scopes, and secrets' names and metadata
 once, and anything older than two minutes reloads in the background when
 you go to it, or when Go to searches it. While it does, the pane's
 bottom border says how old what it shows is (`cached 3h ago`). Revealing
-and copying always fetch the value live.
+and copying always fetch the value live. [`lazysecrets list`](integration.md#listing-for-fzf-and-pickers)
+reads it and adds to it too.

 Lists not loaded for 30 days are dropped, and so is everything from an
 account you're no longer signed in to. Repos aren't cached: their files
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+# Integration
+
+lazysecrets works outside its own window too: `lazysecrets get` reads a
+value for scripts, and `lazysecrets list` lists everything for fzf, editor
+pickers and your own tools. Both take the [links](sharing.md) lazysecrets
+copies and shares. For Neovim, there's
+[lazysecrets.nvim](https://github.com/karleinarb/lazysecrets.nvim).
+
+## Reading a value
+
+`lazysecrets get <link>` prints the value, for scripts and pipes:
+
+```sh
+export DB_PASSWORD=$(lazysecrets get lazysecrets://azure/kv-app-prod.vault.azure.net/secrets/db-password)
+lazysecrets get lazysecrets://azure/kv-app-prod.vault.azure.net/secrets/db-password | kubectl create secret generic db --from-file=password=/dev/stdin
+```
+
+It reads the value directly, with your az accounts (the one that last read
+it first), the Databricks profile for the workspace, or sops in your clone
+of the repo; a version in the link reads that version. `--account` tries
+that account first, as [`list`](#listing-for-fzf-and-pickers) prints it.
+The value ends with a newline only on a terminal. When it can't read the
+value, it says why on stderr and exits with status 1.
+
+## Listing, for fzf and pickers
+
+`lazysecrets list` prints every source, vault and secret, one per line,
+tab-separated:
+
+| Field | |
+|---|---|
+| kind | `source`, `vault`, `secret`, `key` or `certificate` |
+| mark | ✗ when something's wrong (expired, or couldn't be read) or ⚠ when it expires soon; ★ when starred; ◷ when used lately (with `--recent`); and the provider's icon |
+| name | `platform-prod / kv-app-prod / db-password` |
+| status | why a vault or source couldn't be read, or that it has `expired` or `expires in 12d` (within `ui.expiryWarningDays`), or empty |
+| note | your note on it (`n` in lazysecrets), after a note icon (✎ without icons), or empty |
+| account | what it's listed through: an az account (`Azure:<user>/<tenant>`), `Databricks` or `Repos` |
+| link | its `lazysecrets://` link |
+
+What's cached prints at once, then what loads follows as it arrives: read
+it as a stream. Values are never listed. It stops quietly when the reader
+goes, like fzf after a pick. Kind stays the first field, and account and
+link the last two; new fields only ever go between. The mark has a field of
+its own so a search can leave it out: in fzf, `--nth` searches the name,
+so `^prod` finds names starting with prod.
+
+| Flag | |
+|---|---|
+| `--format json` | an object per line instead, for editor plugins (below) |
+| `--kind secret,vault` | only these kinds: `source`, `vault`, `secret`, `key`, `certificate`; lists only other kinds need aren't loaded |
+| `--cached` | only what's cached, at once: nothing is loaded from Azure or Databricks |
+| `--max-age 2m` | load cached lists older than this again |
+| `--errors=false` | leave out the vaults and sources it couldn't read |
+| `--color never` | no colours, for scripts |
+| `--icons=false` | no provider icons |
+| `--stars=false` | no ★ before starred names (in `favouriteColor`) |
+| `--notes=false` | no note icon before a note |
+| `--recent` | ◷ before names used lately, in `mutedColor`; default `ui.recentIcon` |
+| `--expiry=false` | no expiry: not in the status, and no ✗ or ⚠ for it |
+
+With `--format json`, each line is an object with these fields; new ones
+may be added:
+
+| Field | |
+|---|---|
+| `link`, `kind`, `account` | as above |
+| `error` | why it couldn't be read, only then |
+| `provider` | `azure`, `databricks` or `repo` |
+| `path` | the names: `["platform-prod", "kv-app-prod", "db-password"]` |
+| `accountLabel` | the account's short name, when several az accounts are signed in |
+| `starred` | starred for this account |
+| `note` | your note on it, if any |
+| `reference` | how config refers to a secret: `@Microsoft.KeyVault(SecretUri=…)` or `{{secrets/scope/key}}` (`Y` in lazysecrets) |
+| `url` | its web page, in the Azure portal or the Databricks workspace (`o` in lazysecrets) |
+| `recent` | used lately, as Recent (`R`) lists: in the last 90 days |
+| `lastUsed`, `uses` | when it was last used, and how often; only when `recent`, to sort by |
+| `expires` | when a secret, key or certificate expires, if it does (Azure) |
+| `enabled` | `false` for a disabled one; only where the provider says (Azure) |
+
+`lazysecrets open --action go --account <account> <link>` opens one in
+lazysecrets without asking what to do or which account, ending in the
+secrets list, like Go to.
+
+
+### Example usage with fzf
+```sh
+lazysecrets list | fzf --ansi --delimiter='\t' --with-nth='2..-3' --nth='2..' --accept-nth=-1 \
+  --header 'enter: link · ctrl-o: open · ctrl-y: copy value · ctrl-x: copy and close' \
+  --bind 'ctrl-o:become(lazysecrets open --action go --account {-2} {-1})' \
+  --bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(lazysecrets get --account {-2} {-1} | pbcopy)+change-header(Copied the value of {3})' \
+  --bind 'ctrl-x:become(lazysecrets get --account {-2} {-1} | pbcopy)'
+```
+![fzf-example](assets/fzf-example.png)
+
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ match case exactly.
 | `v` | versions of the selected item (Azure); `space`/`y`/`Y` then act on that version; `esc`, `⌫` or `v` to go back |
 | `o` | open the selected item in the browser (over SSH: copy the link) |
 | `e` | open the selected SOPS or `.env` file, or a secret's file at its line ([how](repos.md#opening-files)) |
-| `s` / `S` | copy a [link](links.md) to the selected item / share menu (also env files, [encrypted](links.md#sharing-env-files)) |
+| `s` / `S` | copy a [link](sharing.md) to the selected item / share menu (also env files, [encrypted](sharing.md#sharing-env-files)) |
 | `ctrl+o` | open a link or reference (or just paste one) |
 | `x` | [custom commands](custom-commands.md) |
 | `L` | sign in again (shown when a login has expired) |
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ providers:
 ```

 A repo's `.lazysecrets.yaml` can also name the secret its env files are
-[shared](links.md#sharing-env-files) with:
+[shared](sharing.md#sharing-env-files) with:

 ```yaml
 sharing:
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ sops 3.8 or later.

 ## Links

-`S` → `f` shares env files as an [encrypted link](links.md#sharing-env-files).
+`S` → `f` shares env files as an [encrypted link](sharing.md#sharing-env-files).

 Links name the repo by its git remote, so they open in a colleague's clone
 wherever it is:
@@ -109,4 +109,4 @@ wherever it is:
 lazysecrets://repo/git.example.com%2Fteam%2Finfra/secrets%2Fapp.yaml/db.password
 ```

-See [links](links.md).
+See [sharing](sharing.md).
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Links
+# Sharing

-Subscriptions, workspaces, vaults, scopes, repos, files and secrets can
-be shared as a `lazysecrets://` link, in chat or a ticket. Whoever opens
+Subscriptions, workspaces, vaults, scopes, repos, files and secrets are
+shared as a `lazysecrets://` link, in chat or a ticket. Whoever opens
 it lands on that item, reading it with their own account and
 permissions: the link names the item, never its value. Env files can
 also be [shared encrypted](#sharing-env-files), in the link itself.
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ lazysecrets://databricks/adb-1111111111111111.11.azuredatabricks.net/app/storage
 lazysecrets://repo/git.example.com%2Fteam%2Finfra/secrets%2Fapp.yaml/db.password
 ```

-## Sharing
+## Sharing a link

 `s` copies a link to the selected item (from the versions view, pinned to
 that version). `S` opens the share menu:
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ the value breaks every old link. Whoever has read the secret's value
 before can decrypt links made with it without asking the vault, so rotate
 it now and then: new links use the newest version.

-## Opening
+## Opening a link

 - Paste it into lazysecrets, or press `ctrl+o`, which reads the clipboard
  and fills in any reference it finds there. Key Vault URLs,
@@ -121,20 +121,10 @@ account) and jumps to it, asking which account to use when several can see
 it, ending on a secret's details as `enter` on it would. Links say what,
 not what to do: opening a link to a secret asks whether to just go to it,
 also copy or show its value, or (`y`) copy its value without going there.
-
-## In scripts
-
-`lazysecrets get <link>` prints the value, for scripts and pipes:
-
-```sh
-export DB_PASSWORD=$(lazysecrets get lazysecrets://azure/kv-app-prod.vault.azure.net/secrets/db-password)
-lazysecrets get lazysecrets://azure/kv-app-prod.vault.azure.net/secrets/db-password | kubectl create secret generic db --from-file=password=/dev/stdin
-```
-
-It reads the value directly, with your az accounts (the one that last read
-it first), the Databricks profile for the workspace, or sops in your clone
-of the repo; a version in the link reads that version. The value ends with
-a newline only on a terminal.
+`lazysecrets open --action go|copy|show <link>` does one without asking
+and ends in the list, like Go to,
+and `--account <account>` picks the account (as [`list`](integration.md#listing-for-fzf-and-pickers)
+prints it) when several can see it.

 ## From the browser and chat

@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+// Package cachefile is the cache of what lazysecrets has loaded
+// (cache.json): the Sources lists, vaults, secrets' metadata and where
+// the cursor was in each, never values. The TUI and lazysecrets list
+// both read it and save to it; a save merges with what's on disk, so
+// neither undoes what the other loaded.
+package cachefile
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"maps"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
+)
+
+// Version is the file's format; a file of another version is ignored,
+// and replaced on the next save.
+const Version = 1
+
+// MaxAge drops what hasn't been loaded again for this long.
+const MaxAge = 30 * 24 * time.Hour
+
+// File is the cache. Every key starts with the provider ID: Sources are
+// keyed by it, the rest by Row, Objects' keys and the like.
+type File struct {
+	Version    int                                      `json:"version"`
+	Sources    map[string]Stamped[[]provider.Source]    `json:"sources,omitempty"` // by provider ID
+	Containers map[string]Stamped[[]provider.Container] `json:"containers,omitempty"`
+	Objects    map[string]Stamped[[]provider.Object]    `json:"objects,omitempty"`
+	Details    map[string]Stamped[provider.Object]      `json:"details,omitempty"`
+	Cursor     map[string]string                        `json:"cursor,omitempty"`
+	// Dropped are keys deleted since the file was read (a list that
+	// failed to load): Save deletes them from the file too, rather than
+	// merging the old entry back. Not saved.
+	Dropped map[string]bool `json:"-"`
+}
+
+// Stamped is a list or detail with when it was loaded.
+type Stamped[T any] struct {
+	At    time.Time `json:"at"`
+	Value T         `json:"value"`
+}
+
+// New is an empty cache.
+func New() File {
+	return File{
+		Version:    Version,
+		Sources:    map[string]Stamped[[]provider.Source]{},
+		Containers: map[string]Stamped[[]provider.Container]{},
+		Objects:    map[string]Stamped[[]provider.Object]{},
+		Details:    map[string]Stamped[provider.Object]{},
+		Cursor:     map[string]string{},
+	}
+}
+
+// Row keys a source's vaults or scopes.
+func Row(providerID, sourceID string) string { return providerID + "|" + sourceID }
+
+// ContainerKey keys what's cached about a vault or scope.
+func ContainerKey(c provider.Container) string { return c.Source.Provider + "|" + c.ID }
+
+// ObjectsKey keys a vault's secrets, keys or certificates.
+func ObjectsKey(c provider.Container, t provider.ObjectType) string {
+	return ContainerKey(c) + "|" + string(t)
+}
+
+// ProviderOf is the provider ID a key starts with.
+func ProviderOf(key string) string {
+	id, _, _ := strings.Cut(key, "|")
+	return id
+}
+
+// Keep is Save's keep for these providers: their lists are kept, but not
+// repos', whose files are read from disk anyway, nor other accounts'.
+func Keep(providers []provider.Provider) func(providerID string) bool {
+	keep := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, p := range providers {
+		keep[p.ID()] = p.Kind() != provider.KindRepo
+	}
+	return func(id string) bool { return keep[id] }
+}
+
+// Read reads path; a missing, unreadable or other version's file is an
+// empty cache.
+func Read(path string) File {
+	f := New()
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return f
+	}
+	var d File
+	if json.Unmarshal(b, &d) != nil || d.Version != Version {
+		return f
+	}
+	maps.Copy(f.Sources, d.Sources)
+	maps.Copy(f.Containers, d.Containers)
+	maps.Copy(f.Objects, d.Objects)
+	maps.Copy(f.Details, d.Details)
+	maps.Copy(f.Cursor, d.Cursor)
+	return f
+}
+
+// Save writes f to path, merged with the file there: of a list in both,
+// the one loaded last wins, and f's cursors win (a nil Cursor keeps the
+// file's). Entries older than MaxAge, those of providers keep says no to
+// (accounts signed out of), and f.Dropped are dropped, from the file's
+// side as well. Saves from several lazysecrets take turns (a lock file),
+// so none undoes another's.
+func Save(path string, f File, keep func(providerID string) bool, now time.Time) error {
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0o700); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	unlock, err := lock(path + ".lock")
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer unlock()
+	out := New()
+	ok := func(key string, at time.Time) bool { return keep(ProviderOf(key)) && now.Sub(at) < MaxAge }
+	disk := Read(path)
+	merge(out.Sources, disk.Sources, f.Sources, ok, f.Dropped)
+	merge(out.Containers, disk.Containers, f.Containers, ok, f.Dropped)
+	merge(out.Objects, disk.Objects, f.Objects, ok, f.Dropped)
+	merge(out.Details, disk.Details, f.Details, ok, f.Dropped)
+	for _, m := range []map[string]string{disk.Cursor, f.Cursor} {
+		for k, v := range m {
+			if keep(ProviderOf(k)) {
+				out.Cursor[k] = v
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return write(path, out)
+}
+
+// merge puts disk's entries in out, but not those dropped, then ours
+// where they're newer.
+func merge[T any](out, disk, ours map[string]Stamped[T], ok func(string, time.Time) bool, dropped map[string]bool) {
+	for k, e := range disk {
+		if ok(k, e.At) && !dropped[k] {
+			out[k] = e
+		}
+	}
+	for k, e := range ours {
+		if old, seen := out[k]; ok(k, e.At) && (!seen || !e.At.Before(old.At)) {
+			out[k] = e
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// write writes f atomically, readable by the user only.
+func write(path string, f File) error {
+	b, err := json.Marshal(f)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	tmp, err := os.CreateTemp(filepath.Dir(path), ".cache-*.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer os.Remove(tmp.Name()) // after a successful rename, nothing there
+	if _, err := tmp.Write(b); err != nil {
+		tmp.Close()
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := tmp.Close(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return os.Rename(tmp.Name(), path)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+package cachefile
+
+import (
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
+)
+
+func list(at time.Time, names ...string) Stamped[[]provider.Container] {
+	var cs []provider.Container
+	for _, n := range names {
+		cs = append(cs, provider.Container{Name: n})
+	}
+	return Stamped[[]provider.Container]{At: at, Value: cs}
+}
+
+func TestSaveMerges(t *testing.T) {
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "cache.json")
+	now := time.Now()
+	all := func(string) bool { return true }
+
+	// The TUI saved two lists.
+	tui := New()
+	tui.Containers["az|a"] = list(now.Add(-time.Hour), "kv-a-old")
+	tui.Containers["az|b"] = list(now.Add(-time.Minute), "kv-b")
+	tui.Cursor["az|b"] = "kv-b"
+	if err := Save(path, tui, all, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// lazysecrets list loads a again, and c.
+	listed := Read(path)
+	listed.Containers["az|a"] = list(now, "kv-a-new")
+	listed.Containers["az|c"] = list(now, "kv-c")
+	if err := Save(path, listed, all, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// The TUI saves what it has, older: list's lists stay.
+	if err := Save(path, tui, all, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	f := Read(path)
+	for key, want := range map[string]string{"az|a": "kv-a-new", "az|b": "kv-b", "az|c": "kv-c"} {
+		if got := f.Containers[key].Value; len(got) != 1 || got[0].Name != want {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %v, want %s", key, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+	if f.Cursor["az|b"] != "kv-b" {
+		t.Error("cursor lost")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSaveDrops(t *testing.T) {
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "cache.json")
+	now := time.Now()
+	f := New()
+	f.Containers["az|old"] = list(now.Add(-MaxAge-time.Hour), "kv-old")
+	f.Containers["gone|x"] = list(now, "kv-gone")
+	f.Containers["az|x"] = list(now, "kv-x")
+	if err := Save(path, f, func(id string) bool { return true }, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// Signed out of "gone" since: dropped from the file too.
+	if err := Save(path, New(), func(id string) bool { return id == "az" }, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got := Read(path).Containers
+	if _, ok := got["az|old"]; ok {
+		t.Error("kept a list older than MaxAge")
+	}
+	if _, ok := got["gone|x"]; ok {
+		t.Error("kept a signed-out account's list")
+	}
+	if _, ok := got["az|x"]; !ok {
+		t.Error("dropped a list on disk the save didn't have")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReadOtherVersion(t *testing.T) {
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "cache.json")
+	f := New()
+	f.Version = Version + 1
+	f.Containers["az|x"] = list(time.Now(), "kv-x")
+	if err := write(path, f); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := Read(path); len(got.Containers) != 0 || got.Version != Version {
+		t.Errorf("read another version's file: %+v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSaveDroppedAndCursors(t *testing.T) {
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "cache.json")
+	now := time.Now()
+	all := func(string) bool { return true }
+	f := New()
+	f.Containers["az|bad"] = list(now, "kv-old")
+	f.Cursor["az|x"] = "kv-tui"
+	if err := Save(path, f, all, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// The TUI fails to load it again and drops it: it stays gone.
+	f = New()
+	f.Dropped = map[string]bool{"az|bad": true}
+	if err := Save(path, f, all, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, ok := Read(path).Containers["az|bad"]; ok {
+		t.Error("a dropped list came back")
+	}
+	// lazysecrets list saves without cursors: the TUI's stay.
+	listed := New()
+	listed.Cursor = nil
+	listed.Containers["az|y"] = list(now, "kv-y")
+	if err := Save(path, listed, all, now); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if Read(path).Cursor["az|x"] != "kv-tui" {
+		t.Error("the TUI's cursor was lost")
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+//go:build !unix
+
+package cachefile
+
+// lock does nothing here: saves can then race, losing lists that load
+// again.
+func lock(string) (func(), error) { return func() {}, nil }
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+//go:build unix
+
+package cachefile
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+// lock takes path as a lock file, waiting while another lazysecrets has
+// it, and returns how to let go.
+func lock(path string) (unlock func(), err error) {
+	f, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|os.O_RDWR, 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if err := syscall.Flock(int(f.Fd()), syscall.LOCK_EX); err != nil {
+		f.Close()
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return func() {
+		_ = syscall.Flock(int(f.Fd()), syscall.LOCK_UN)
+		f.Close()
+	}, nil
+}
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ type Config struct {

 type UI struct {
 	Icons *bool `yaml:"icons"`
+	// RecentIcon marks items used lately (Recent, R) with ◷, in the lists
+	// and in lazysecrets list. Defaults to false.
+	RecentIcon *bool `yaml:"recentIcon"`
 	// SourcesView is "grouped" (default) or "flat"; ` + "`" + ` toggles it.
 	SourcesView string `yaml:"sourcesView"`
 	// CollapseGroups starts the Sources pane with its groups folded;
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// Package expiry says whether a secret, key or certificate has expired
+// or will soon, and how long it has left, the same way everywhere: the
+// TUI's lists and status pane, and lazysecrets list.
+package expiry
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+)
+
+type State int
+
+const (
+	None    State = iota // no expiry, or not within the warning period
+	Soon                 // within the warning period
+	Expired              // already
+)
+
+// Of tells whether something expiring at expires (zero: never) has
+// expired by now or will within warn, and how long it has left.
+func Of(expires, now time.Time, warn time.Duration) (State, time.Duration) {
+	if expires.IsZero() {
+		return None, 0
+	}
+	left := expires.Sub(now)
+	switch {
+	case left <= 0:
+		return Expired, 0
+	case left <= warn:
+		return Soon, left
+	}
+	return None, left
+}
+
+// Left is a short "12d", or "5h" on the last day.
+func Left(d time.Duration) string {
+	if d < 24*time.Hour {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%dh", max(1, int(d.Hours())))
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%dd", int(d.Hours()/24))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package expiry
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestOf(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2026, 10, 14, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	warn := 30 * 24 * time.Hour
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		expires time.Time
+		want    State
+		left    string
+	}{
+		{time.Time{}, None, ""},
+		{now.Add(-time.Hour), Expired, ""},
+		{now.Add(12*24*time.Hour + time.Hour), Soon, "12d"},
+		{now.Add(5 * time.Hour), Soon, "5h"},
+		{now.Add(60 * 24 * time.Hour), None, ""},
+	} {
+		state, left := Of(c.expires, now, warn)
+		if state != c.want || (c.left != "" && Left(left) != c.left) {
+			t.Errorf("%v: %v %s, want %v %s", c.expires, state, Left(left), c.want, c.left)
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,399 @@
+// Package listing lists what lazysecrets can find, for lazysecrets list:
+// what Go to searches, without the TUI. What's cached comes first, at
+// once; then lists that are missing or older than MaxAge load in the
+// background, a few at a time, and what's new in them follows as they
+// arrive. Repos are always read, from disk. Values are never listed.
+package listing
+
+import (
+	"cmp"
+	"context"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ref"
+)
+
+// Workers is how many lists load at once, as in Go to.
+const Workers = 4
+
+// Kinds are the kinds of entry, from sources down.
+var Kinds = []string{"source", "vault", "secret", "key", "certificate"}
+
+// Entry is a source, vault or item, by its lazysecrets:// link.
+type Entry struct {
+	Link string `json:"link"`
+	// Kind is source (a subscription, workspace or repo), vault (a Key
+	// Vault, secret scope or repo file), secret, key or certificate.
+	Kind string `json:"kind"`
+	// Provider is azure, databricks or repo, as in links.
+	Provider string `json:"provider"`
+	// Path names it: its source's, vault's and own names.
+	Path []string `json:"path"`
+	// Account is the provider it's listed through: an az account
+	// (Azure:<user>/<tenant>), Databricks or Repos. lazysecrets open and
+	// get take it (--account) to use that account when several could.
+	Account string `json:"account"`
+	// AccountLabel names the az account, when there are several.
+	AccountLabel string `json:"accountLabel,omitempty"`
+	// Starred is starred for this account; Recent is used lately (Recent,
+	// R, in the TUI): LastUsed is when, Uses how often.
+	Starred  bool      `json:"starred"`
+	Recent   bool      `json:"recent"`
+	LastUsed time.Time `json:"lastUsed,omitzero"`
+	Uses     int       `json:"uses,omitempty"`
+	// Expires is when a secret, key or certificate expires, if it does;
+	// Enabled whether it's enabled, where the provider says (Azure).
+	Expires time.Time `json:"expires,omitzero"`
+	Enabled *bool     `json:"enabled,omitempty"`
+	// Note is the user's note on it, if any.
+	Note string `json:"note,omitempty"`
+	// Reference is how config refers to a secret, where the provider has
+	// a way (@Microsoft.KeyVault(...), {{secrets/scope/key}}); URL its
+	// web page (portal, workspace), if any.
+	Reference string `json:"reference,omitempty"`
+	URL       string `json:"url,omitempty"`
+	// Error says why a source's vaults or a vault's secrets couldn't be
+	// listed. The entry is then that source or vault, again, or with an
+	// account's sources unreadable, the account without a link.
+	Error string `json:"error,omitempty"`
+}
+
+type Options struct {
+	Providers []provider.Provider
+	// Cache is what was loaded before; Run adds what it loads.
+	Cache cachefile.File
+	// MaxAge: cached lists loaded longer ago are loaded again.
+	MaxAge time.Duration
+	// Cached lists only what's cached (and repos): nothing is loaded.
+	Cached bool
+	// Kinds are the kinds of entry to list (Kinds' names); none is all.
+	// Lists only needed for other kinds aren't loaded: sources and vaults
+	// alone don't load any secrets. Lists that fail are always listed.
+	Kinds []string
+	// Mark tells what's remembered about the entry with link, seen
+	// through account; nil marks nothing.
+	Mark    func(link, account string) Marks
+	Timeout func(provider.Kind) time.Duration // nil: 30s
+	Now     func() time.Time
+}
+
+// Marks are what's remembered about an entry: starred for the account,
+// used lately (Recent) and when and how often, and its note.
+type Marks struct {
+	Starred, Recent bool
+	LastUsed        time.Time
+	Uses            int
+	Note            string
+}
+
+// Run lists everything, calling emit for each entry once, from this
+// goroutine, and for each list that can't be loaded, as it fails. An
+// error from emit (the reader went away) stops it. It returns the cache
+// with what was loaded, and whether anything was.
+func Run(ctx context.Context, o Options, emit func(Entry) error) (cachefile.File, bool) {
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
+	defer cancel()
+	l := &lister{o: o, emit: emit, seen: map[string]bool{}, pending: map[string]bool{}, failed: map[string]bool{},
+		results: make(chan result)}
+	if l.o.Now == nil {
+		l.o.Now = time.Now
+	}
+	if l.o.Timeout == nil {
+		l.o.Timeout = func(provider.Kind) time.Duration { return 30 * time.Second }
+	}
+	for _, p := range o.Providers {
+		if l.stopped != nil {
+			break
+		}
+		l.provider(p)
+	}
+	l.start(ctx)
+	for l.active > 0 {
+		r := <-l.results
+		l.active--
+		if l.stopped == nil {
+			l.handle(r)
+			l.start(ctx)
+		}
+		if l.stopped != nil {
+			cancel()
+		}
+	}
+	return l.o.Cache, l.loaded
+}
+
+type job struct {
+	p   provider.Provider
+	src *provider.Source    // list its vaults
+	c   *provider.Container // list its secrets, keys or certificates (t)
+	t   provider.ObjectType
+	key string // where the list is cached
+}
+
+type result struct {
+	job
+	sources    []provider.Source
+	containers []provider.Container
+	objects    []provider.Object
+	err        error
+}
+
+type lister struct {
+	o       Options
+	emit    func(Entry) error
+	seen    map[string]bool // provider ID + link of entries emitted
+	pending map[string]bool // cache keys queued or loading
+	failed  map[string]bool // cache keys that couldn't be loaded: not again
+	loaded  bool            // something was cached
+	queue   []job
+	active  int
+	results chan result
+	stopped error // emit's error
+}
+
+func (l *lister) cacheable(p provider.Provider) bool { return p.Kind() != provider.KindRepo }
+
+// load reports whether to load a list: a repo's always (from disk), else
+// unless Cached, when it isn't cached or is older than MaxAge.
+func (l *lister) load(p provider.Provider, cached bool, at time.Time) bool {
+	if !l.cacheable(p) {
+		return true
+	}
+	return !l.o.Cached && (!cached || l.o.Now().Sub(at) >= l.o.MaxAge)
+}
+
+func (l *lister) provider(p provider.Provider) {
+	e, ok := l.o.Cache.Sources[p.ID()]
+	if l.cacheable(p) && ok {
+		for _, src := range sorted(e.Value, func(s provider.Source) string { return s.Name }) {
+			l.source(p, src)
+		}
+	}
+	if l.load(p, ok, e.At) {
+		l.enqueue(job{p: p, key: p.ID()})
+	}
+}
+
+// source emits src, and what's cached under it, and queues what's not.
+func (l *lister) source(p provider.Provider, src provider.Source) {
+	src.Provider, src.ProviderLabel = p.ID(), p.Label()
+	l.put(p, sourceEntry(src))
+	row := cachefile.Row(p.ID(), src.ID)
+	e, ok := l.o.Cache.Containers[row]
+	if l.cacheable(p) && ok {
+		l.containers(p, src, e.Value)
+	}
+	if l.load(p, ok, e.At) {
+		if l.wants("vault", "secret", "key", "certificate") {
+			l.enqueue(job{p: p, src: &src, key: row})
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (l *lister) containers(p provider.Provider, src provider.Source, cs []provider.Container) {
+	for _, c := range sorted(cs, func(c provider.Container) string { return c.Name }) {
+		c.Source = src
+		l.put(p, containerEntry(c))
+		for _, t := range c.ObjectTypes() {
+			key := cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, t)
+			e, ok := l.o.Cache.Objects[key]
+			if l.cacheable(p) {
+				l.objects(p, c, e.Value)
+			}
+			// Keys and certificates load only when asked for; else,
+			// like Go to, only as far as the TUI opened them.
+			asked := l.wants(strings.ToLower(string(t)))
+			if t != provider.TypeSecret {
+				asked = len(l.o.Kinds) > 0 && asked
+			}
+			if asked && l.load(p, ok, e.At) {
+				l.enqueue(job{p: p, c: &c, t: t, key: key})
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (l *lister) objects(p provider.Provider, c provider.Container, objs []provider.Object) {
+	for _, o := range sorted(objs, func(o provider.Object) string { return o.Name }) {
+		o.Container = c
+		r, err := ref.ForObject(o, "")
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		l.put(p, Entry{Link: r.String(), Kind: strings.ToLower(string(o.Type)), Provider: kindOf(c.Source.Kind),
+			Path: []string{c.Source.Name, c.Name, o.Name}, AccountLabel: accountOf(c.Source),
+			Expires: o.Expires, Enabled: o.Enabled, Reference: o.Reference, URL: o.URL})
+	}
+}
+
+func sourceEntry(src provider.Source) Entry {
+	e := Entry{Kind: "source", Provider: kindOf(src.Kind), Path: []string{src.Name}, AccountLabel: accountOf(src), URL: src.URL}
+	if r, err := ref.ForSource(src); err == nil {
+		e.Link = r.String()
+	}
+	return e
+}
+
+func containerEntry(c provider.Container) Entry {
+	e := Entry{Kind: "vault", Provider: kindOf(c.Source.Kind), Path: []string{c.Source.Name, c.Name}, AccountLabel: accountOf(c.Source), URL: c.URL}
+	if r, err := ref.ForContainer(c, provider.TypeSecret); err == nil {
+		e.Link = r.String()
+	}
+	return e
+}
+
+// put emits e, unless it was already (or emitting has failed). Entries
+// without a link (one couldn't be made) are left out, but not errors.
+func (l *lister) put(p provider.Provider, e Entry) {
+	if (e.Link == "" || !l.wants(e.Kind)) && e.Error == "" {
+		return
+	}
+	e.Account = p.ID()
+	if l.o.Mark != nil && e.Link != "" {
+		m := l.o.Mark(e.Link, e.Account)
+		e.Starred, e.Recent, e.Note = m.Starred, m.Recent, m.Note
+		if m.Recent {
+			e.LastUsed, e.Uses = m.LastUsed, m.Uses
+		}
+	}
+	id := p.ID() + "\x00" + e.Link + "\x00" + e.Error
+	if l.stopped != nil || l.seen[id] {
+		return
+	}
+	l.seen[id] = true
+	l.stopped = l.emit(e)
+}
+
+// wants reports whether any of kinds is listed.
+func (l *lister) wants(kinds ...string) bool {
+	if len(l.o.Kinds) == 0 {
+		return true
+	}
+	for _, k := range kinds {
+		if slices.Contains(l.o.Kinds, k) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func (l *lister) enqueue(j job) {
+	if l.pending[j.key] || l.failed[j.key] {
+		return
+	}
+	l.pending[j.key] = true
+	l.queue = append(l.queue, j)
+}
+
+func (l *lister) start(ctx context.Context) {
+	for l.stopped == nil && l.active < Workers && len(l.queue) > 0 {
+		j := l.queue[0]
+		l.queue = l.queue[1:]
+		l.active++
+		go func() { l.results <- l.fetch(ctx, j) }()
+	}
+}
+
+func (l *lister) fetch(ctx context.Context, j job) result {
+	kind := j.p.Kind()
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, l.o.Timeout(kind))
+	defer cancel()
+	r := result{job: j}
+	switch {
+	case j.c != nil:
+		r.objects, r.err = j.p.Objects(ctx, *j.c, j.t)
+	case j.src != nil:
+		r.containers, r.err = j.p.Containers(ctx, *j.src)
+	default:
+		r.sources, r.err = j.p.Sources(ctx)
+	}
+	return r
+}
+
+func (l *lister) handle(r result) {
+	delete(l.pending, r.key)
+	now := l.o.Now()
+	if r.err != nil {
+		l.failed[r.key] = true
+		l.put(r.p, r.failed())
+		return
+	}
+	l.loaded = l.loaded || l.cacheable(r.p)
+	cache := l.cacheable(r.p)
+	switch {
+	case r.c != nil:
+		if cache {
+			l.o.Cache.Objects[r.key] = cachefile.Stamped[[]provider.Object]{At: now, Value: r.objects}
+		}
+		l.objects(r.p, *r.c, r.objects)
+	case r.src != nil:
+		r.containers = slices.Clone(r.containers) // the provider's may be shared
+		for i := range r.containers {
+			r.containers[i].Source = *r.src
+		}
+		if cache {
+			l.o.Cache.Containers[r.key] = cachefile.Stamped[[]provider.Container]{At: now, Value: r.containers}
+		}
+		l.containers(r.p, *r.src, r.containers)
+	default:
+		if cache {
+			l.o.Cache.Sources[r.key] = cachefile.Stamped[[]provider.Source]{At: now, Value: r.sources}
+		}
+		for _, src := range r.sources {
+			l.source(r.p, src)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// failed is the entry for a list that couldn't be loaded.
+func (r result) failed() Entry {
+	var e Entry
+	switch {
+	case r.c != nil:
+		e = containerEntry(*r.c)
+	case r.src != nil:
+		src := *r.src
+		src.Provider, src.ProviderLabel = r.p.ID(), r.p.Label()
+		e = sourceEntry(src)
+	default:
+		e = Entry{Kind: "source", Provider: kindOf(r.p.Kind()), Path: []string{r.p.Label()}}
+	}
+	e.Error = firstLine(r.err.Error())
+	return e
+}
+
+// firstLine is an error's first line, the summary (Azure's go on with
+// the caller's IDs and more): an entry is one line. Tabs, which would
+// split it into columns, are spaces.
+func firstLine(s string) string {
+	for line := range strings.Lines(s) {
+		if line = strings.TrimSpace(line); line != "" {
+			return strings.ReplaceAll(line, "\t", " ")
+		}
+	}
+	return "unreadable"
+}
+
+func kindOf(k provider.Kind) string { return strings.ToLower(string(k)) }
+
+// accountOf is the account part of a source's provider label ("alice" in
+// "Azure · alice"), or "" when there's a single account.
+func accountOf(src provider.Source) string {
+	account, ok := strings.CutPrefix(src.ProviderLabel, string(src.Kind)+" · ")
+	if !ok {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return account
+}
+
+func sorted[T any](s []T, name func(T) string) []T {
+	s = slices.Clone(s)
+	slices.SortStableFunc(s, func(a, b T) int {
+		return cmp.Compare(strings.ToLower(name(a)), strings.ToLower(name(b)))
+	})
+	return s
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,297 @@
+package listing
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider/fake"
+)
+
+// counting counts a provider's requests.
+type counting struct {
+	provider.Provider
+	calls atomic.Int32
+}
+
+func (c *counting) Sources(ctx context.Context) ([]provider.Source, error) {
+	c.calls.Add(1)
+	return c.Provider.Sources(ctx)
+}
+
+func (c *counting) Containers(ctx context.Context, src provider.Source) ([]provider.Container, error) {
+	c.calls.Add(1)
+	return c.Provider.Containers(ctx, src)
+}
+
+func (c *counting) Objects(ctx context.Context, ct provider.Container, t provider.ObjectType) ([]provider.Object, error) {
+	c.calls.Add(1)
+	return c.Provider.Objects(ctx, ct, t)
+}
+
+// run lists, returning the entries and, apart, the lists that failed.
+func run(t *testing.T, o Options) ([]Entry, cachefile.File, []Entry) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if o.Cache.Version == 0 {
+		o.Cache = cachefile.New()
+	}
+	o.Timeout = func(provider.Kind) time.Duration { return 5 * time.Second }
+	var got, failed []Entry
+	f, _ := Run(context.Background(), o, func(e Entry) error {
+		if e.Error != "" {
+			failed = append(failed, e)
+		} else {
+			got = append(got, e)
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	return got, f, failed
+}
+
+func has(es []Entry, kind, path string) bool {
+	for _, e := range es {
+		if e.Kind == kind && strings.Join(e.Path, "/") == path {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func TestListLoadsAndCaches(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	az := &counting{Provider: fake.Azure(0)}
+	got, f, errs := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az, fake.Repos()}, MaxAge: time.Minute})
+	for _, want := range [][2]string{
+		{"source", "platform-prod"}, {"vault", "platform-prod/kv-app-prod"}, {"secret", "platform-prod/kv-app-prod/db-password"},
+		{"source", "lazysecrets-demo"}, {"secret", "lazysecrets-demo/.env/DATABASE_URL"},
+	} {
+		if !has(got, want[0], want[1]) {
+			t.Errorf("no %s %s", want[0], want[1])
+		}
+	}
+	if len(errs) != 1 || errs[0].Kind != "vault" || errs[0].Path[1] != "kv-restricted" || !strings.Contains(errs[0].Error, "403") || errs[0].Link == "" {
+		t.Errorf("failed = %+v", errs)
+	}
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, e := range got {
+		if seen[e.Link] {
+			t.Errorf("%s listed twice", e.Link)
+		}
+		seen[e.Link] = true
+		if e.Provider != "azure" && e.Provider != "repo" {
+			t.Errorf("provider %q", e.Provider)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, e := range got {
+		if e.Kind == "secret" && e.Provider == "azure" && (!strings.HasPrefix(e.Reference, "@Microsoft.KeyVault(") || e.URL == "") {
+			t.Errorf("%s: reference %q, url %q", e.Link, e.Reference, e.URL)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(f.Sources) != 1 || len(f.Containers) == 0 || len(f.Objects) == 0 {
+		t.Errorf("not cached: %d sources, %d containers, %d objects", len(f.Sources), len(f.Containers), len(f.Objects))
+	}
+	for k := range f.Containers {
+		if cachefile.ProviderOf(k) != az.ID() {
+			t.Errorf("cached a repo: %s", k)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Again with that cache: the same, without asking Azure.
+	before := az.calls.Load()
+	again, _, _ := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az, fake.Repos()}, Cache: f, MaxAge: time.Minute})
+	if len(again) != len(got) {
+		t.Errorf("%d entries from the cache, %d loaded", len(again), len(got))
+	}
+	// The vault that couldn't be read wasn't cached: it's asked again.
+	if n := az.calls.Load() - before; n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("%d requests with a fresh cache, want 1 (kv-restricted)", n)
+	}
+
+	// Stale: loaded again, but each entry is still listed once.
+	before = az.calls.Load()
+	stale, _, _ := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az}, Cache: f, MaxAge: time.Minute,
+		Now: func() time.Time { return time.Now().Add(time.Hour) }})
+	if az.calls.Load()-before < 3 {
+		t.Error("stale lists weren't loaded again")
+	}
+	links := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, e := range stale {
+		if links[e.Link] {
+			t.Errorf("%s listed twice", e.Link)
+		}
+		links[e.Link] = true
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListCachedOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	az := &counting{Provider: fake.Azure(0)}
+	_, f, _ := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az}, MaxAge: time.Minute})
+	before := az.calls.Load()
+	got, _, errs := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az, fake.Repos()}, Cache: f, Cached: true,
+		Now: func() time.Time { return time.Now().Add(24 * time.Hour) }})
+	if az.calls.Load() != before || len(errs) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("--cached asked Azure: %d requests, %v", az.calls.Load()-before, errs)
+	}
+	if !has(got, "secret", "platform-prod/kv-app-prod/db-password") || !has(got, "secret", "lazysecrets-demo/.env/DATABASE_URL") {
+		t.Error("cached secrets or repos missing")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListCachedFirst(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	az := fake.Azure(0)
+	_, f, _ := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az}, MaxAge: time.Minute})
+	// Forget one vault's secrets: they load, after everything cached.
+	var dropped string
+	for k := range f.Objects {
+		if strings.Contains(k, "kv-app-prod") && strings.HasSuffix(k, "|Secret") {
+			dropped = k
+			delete(f.Objects, k)
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if dropped == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("no kv-app-prod in %v", f.Objects)
+	}
+	got, _, _ := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az}, Cache: f, MaxAge: time.Minute})
+	last := got[len(got)-1]
+	if last.Kind != "secret" || last.Path[1] != "kv-app-prod" {
+		t.Errorf("last = %+v, want a kv-app-prod secret, loaded after the cache", last)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListStopsWhenTheReaderGoes(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	gone := errors.New("broken pipe")
+	n := 0
+	var errs []Entry
+	Run(context.Background(), Options{
+		Providers: []provider.Provider{fake.Azure(0), fake.Repos()}, Cache: cachefile.New(), MaxAge: time.Minute,
+		Timeout: func(provider.Kind) time.Duration { return time.Second },
+	}, func(e Entry) error {
+		if e.Error != "" {
+			errs = append(errs, e)
+		}
+		n++
+		if n == 2 {
+			return gone
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	if n != 2 || len(errs) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("emitted %d after the reader went, errs %v", n, errs)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListKinds(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	// Sources only: nothing under them is asked for.
+	az := &counting{Provider: fake.Azure(0)}
+	got, _, _ := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az}, MaxAge: time.Minute, Kinds: []string{"source"}})
+	if len(got) == 0 || az.calls.Load() != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("%d sources, %d requests, want just the sources'", len(got), az.calls.Load())
+	}
+	for _, e := range got {
+		if e.Kind != "source" {
+			t.Errorf("listed a %s", e.Kind)
+		}
+	}
+	// Keys, asked for: loaded, though Go to wouldn't; no secrets.
+	got, _, failed := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{fake.Azure(0)}, MaxAge: time.Minute, Kinds: []string{"key"}})
+	if !has(got, "key", "platform-prod/kv-app-prod/signing-key") {
+		t.Errorf("no keys: %+v", got)
+	}
+	for _, e := range got {
+		if e.Kind != "key" {
+			t.Errorf("listed a %s", e.Kind)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(failed) == 0 {
+		t.Error("a list that failed wasn't listed")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestErrorsAreOneLine(t *testing.T) {
+	for in, want := range map[string]string{
+		"403 Forbidden: Caller is not authorized\nCaller: appid=x;oid=y\nVault: kv;location=z": "403 Forbidden: Caller is not authorized",
+		"\n  timeout\tafter 30s\n": "timeout after 30s",
+		"":                         "unreadable",
+	} {
+		if got := firstLine(in); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("firstLine(%q) = %q, want %q", in, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestListMarks(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	az := fake.Azure(0)
+	var starredLink string
+	got, _, _ := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az}, MaxAge: time.Minute, Kinds: []string{"secret"},
+		Mark: func(link, account string) Marks {
+			if starredLink == "" && strings.HasSuffix(link, "/db-password") {
+				starredLink = link
+			}
+			if strings.HasSuffix(link, "/api-key") {
+				return Marks{Recent: true, LastUsed: time.Now(), Uses: 3, Note: "rotate in May"}
+			}
+			if strings.HasSuffix(link, "/legacy-token") { // used, but too long ago
+				return Marks{LastUsed: time.Now().AddDate(-2, 0, 0), Uses: 9}
+			}
+			return Marks{Starred: link == starredLink && account == az.ID()}
+		}})
+	var starred, recent int
+	for _, e := range got {
+		if e.Starred {
+			starred++
+			if e.Link != starredLink {
+				t.Errorf("%s starred", e.Link)
+			}
+		}
+		if (e.Note != "") != strings.HasSuffix(e.Link, "/api-key") {
+			t.Errorf("%s: note %q", e.Link, e.Note)
+		}
+		if e.Recent {
+			recent++
+			if e.Uses != 3 || e.LastUsed.IsZero() {
+				t.Errorf("%s: %d uses, last %v", e.Link, e.Uses, e.LastUsed)
+			}
+		} else if e.Uses != 0 || !e.LastUsed.IsZero() {
+			t.Errorf("%s not recent, but %d uses, last %v", e.Link, e.Uses, e.LastUsed)
+		}
+	}
+	if starred != 1 || recent == 0 {
+		t.Errorf("%d starred, %d recent", starred, recent)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFailedListNotRetried(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	az := &counting{Provider: fake.Azure(0)}
+	_, f, _ := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az}, MaxAge: time.Minute})
+	// Everything stale: sources reload, and their vaults are queued again
+	// as each list arrives. kv-restricted fails once, and isn't asked again.
+	before := az.calls.Load()
+	_, _, failed := run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{az}, Cache: f, MaxAge: time.Minute,
+		Now: func() time.Time { return time.Now().Add(time.Hour) }})
+	if len(failed) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("failed: %+v", failed)
+	}
+	fresh := &counting{Provider: fake.Azure(0)}
+	run(t, Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{fresh}, MaxAge: time.Minute})
+	if n := az.calls.Load() - before; n > fresh.calls.Load() {
+		t.Errorf("%d requests with a stale cache, more than %d from scratch: something was asked twice", n, fresh.calls.Load())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRunWithoutTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	Run(context.Background(), Options{Providers: []provider.Provider{fake.Repos()}, Cache: cachefile.New()},
+		func(Entry) error { return nil }) // no Timeout: a default, not a panic
+}
@@ -218,6 +218,19 @@ func (p *Provider) addContainer(src provider.Source, name, detail string, types
 	return c
 }

+// Expire sets when the object name in vault expires, for --demo: a date
+// relative to today in the test data would change the tests' screenshots
+// from day to day.
+func (p *Provider) Expire(vault, name string, at time.Time) {
+	for _, objs := range p.objects {
+		for i := range objs {
+			if objs[i].Container.Name == vault && objs[i].Name == name {
+				objs[i].Expires = at
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func (p *Provider) add(c provider.Container, t provider.ObjectType, o provider.Object, value string) provider.Object {
 	o.Container = c
 	o.Type = t
@@ -287,9 +300,13 @@ func Azure(delay time.Duration) *Provider {
 		Reference: secretRef("kv-app-prod", "api-key"),
 	}, "sk_live_51HxDEMO0000000000000000")
 	p.add(kv, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
-		Name: "legacy-token", Version: "0c11de", Enabled: &no, Updated: base.AddDate(-1, 0, 0),
-		Reference: secretRef("kv-app-prod", "legacy-token"),
+		Name: "legacy-token", Version: "0c11de", Enabled: &yes, Updated: base.AddDate(-1, 0, 0),
+		Expires: base.AddDate(0, -3, 0), Reference: secretRef("kv-app-prod", "legacy-token"),
 	}, "deprecated")
+	p.add(kv, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
+		Name: "smtp-password", Version: "7d2e90", Enabled: &no, Updated: base.AddDate(0, -2, 0),
+		Reference: secretRef("kv-app-prod", "smtp-password"),
+	}, "smtp-demo-password")

 	p.add(kv, provider.TypeKey, provider.Object{
 		Name: "signing-key", Version: "5e21b7", Enabled: &yes, Updated: base.AddDate(0, -3, 0),
@@ -349,6 +366,19 @@ func Azure(delay time.Duration) *Provider {
 	p.add(kvDev, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
 		Name: "db-password", Enabled: &yes, Updated: base, Reference: secretRef("kv-app-dev", "db-password"),
 	}, "dev-password")
+	// Left behind, as dev vaults are: expired, disabled, or both.
+	p.add(kvDev, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
+		Name: "stripe-webhook-secret", Enabled: &yes, Updated: base.AddDate(-1, 0, 0),
+		Expires: base.AddDate(0, -2, 0), Reference: secretRef("kv-app-dev", "stripe-webhook-secret"),
+	}, "whsec_demo_expired")
+	p.add(kvDev, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
+		Name: "test-user-password", Enabled: &no, Updated: base.AddDate(0, -5, 0),
+		Reference: secretRef("kv-app-dev", "test-user-password"),
+	}, "disabled-demo-password")
+	p.add(kvDev, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
+		Name: "vendor-token", Enabled: &no, Updated: base.AddDate(-2, 0, 0),
+		Expires: base.AddDate(-1, 0, 0), Reference: secretRef("kv-app-dev", "vendor-token"),
+	}, "expired-and-disabled")

 	return p
 }
@@ -366,6 +396,7 @@ func AzureOps(delay time.Duration) *Provider {
 	breakGlass := p.addContainer(prod, "kv-breakglass", "https://kv-breakglass.vault.azure.net", allTypes...)
 	p.add(breakGlass, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
 		Name: "emergency-admin", Enabled: &yes, Updated: base.AddDate(0, -4, 0),
+		Expires: time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 5).Truncate(24 * time.Hour), // soon, whenever the demo runs
 		Tags:    map[string]string{"owner": "ops"}, Reference: secretRef("kv-breakglass", "emergency-admin"),
 	}, "break-glass-demo-password")
 	shared := p.addContainer(prod, "kv-shared-prod", "https://kv-shared-prod.vault.azure.net", allTypes...)
@@ -384,6 +415,12 @@ func AzureOps(delay time.Duration) *Provider {
 	p.add(kv, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
 		Name: "pagerduty-token", Enabled: &yes, Updated: base.AddDate(0, -1, 0), Reference: secretRef("kv-ops-tools", "pagerduty-token"),
 	}, "pd-demo-token")
+	// Expiring soon whenever the demo runs: the other dates are fixed,
+	// and would have passed. Tests use the first account only.
+	p.add(kv, provider.TypeSecret, provider.Object{
+		Name: "grafana-api-key", Enabled: &yes, Updated: base.AddDate(0, -11, 0),
+		Expires: time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, 12).Truncate(24 * time.Hour), Reference: secretRef("kv-ops-tools", "grafana-api-key"),
+	}, "glsa_demo_expiring")

 	return p
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package fake
+
+import (
+	"cmp"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/store"
+)
+
+// Seed stars, notes and uses a few of the demo's secrets, so --demo
+// shows Favourites (F), Recent (R), notes, and stars in lazysecrets list. alice and
+// admin are the two Azure accounts' provider IDs.
+func Seed(st *store.Store, alice, admin string) {
+	type item struct {
+		link, account, source string
+		name                  string // else the link's last part
+		note                  string
+		path                  []string
+		star                  bool
+		uses                  int
+		ago                   time.Duration
+	}
+	const azure, dbx = "lazysecrets://azure/", "lazysecrets://databricks/adb-1111111111111111.11.azuredatabricks.net/"
+	for _, it := range []item{
+		{link: azure + "kv-app-prod.vault.azure.net/secrets/db-password", account: alice, source: "sub-prod",
+			path: []string{"platform-prod", "kv-app-prod"}, star: true, uses: 12, ago: 20 * time.Minute,
+			note: "rotated by the data team each quarter"},
+		{link: azure + "kv-app-prod.vault.azure.net/secrets/api-key", account: alice, source: "sub-prod",
+			path: []string{"platform-prod", "kv-app-prod"}, uses: 4, ago: 2 * time.Hour},
+		{link: azure + "kv-breakglass.vault.azure.net/secrets/emergency-admin", account: admin, source: "sub-prod",
+			path: []string{"platform-prod", "kv-breakglass"}, star: true, note: "incidents only: tell #ops when used"},
+		{link: azure + "kv-shared-prod.vault.azure.net/secrets/smtp-password", account: alice, source: "sub-prod",
+			path: []string{"platform-prod", "kv-shared-prod"}, uses: 2, ago: 26 * time.Hour},
+		{link: azure + "kv-app-prod.vault.azure.net/secrets/smtp-password", account: alice, source: "sub-prod",
+			path: []string{"platform-prod", "kv-app-prod"}, note: "migrated to Microsoft Graph sendMail; delete after Q4"},
+		{link: dbx + "app/storage-key", account: "Databricks", source: "dbx-prod",
+			path: []string{"prod", "app"}, star: true, uses: 3, ago: 5 * time.Hour},
+		// A subscription, for both accounts, and a repo's file.
+		{link: azure + "subscriptions/sub-prod", account: alice, source: "sub-prod",
+			name: "platform-prod", star: true},
+		{link: azure + "subscriptions/sub-prod", account: admin, source: "sub-prod",
+			name: "platform-prod", star: true},
+		{link: "lazysecrets://repo/github.com%2Facme%2Flazysecrets-demo/deploy%2Fprod%2Fsecrets.yaml", account: "Repos",
+			source: "/home/dev/git/lazysecrets-demo", name: "deploy/prod/secrets.yaml",
+			path: []string{"lazysecrets-demo"}, star: true},
+	} {
+		context := func(n *store.Node) {
+			n.Name = cmp.Or(it.name, it.link[strings.LastIndex(it.link, "/")+1:])
+			n.Path, n.Source, n.Account = it.path, it.source, it.account
+		}
+		if it.star || it.note != "" {
+			_ = st.Update(it.link, func(n *store.Node) {
+				context(n)
+				if it.star {
+					n.ToggleStar(it.account)
+				}
+				n.Note = it.note
+			})
+		}
+		for range it.uses {
+			_ = st.Use(it.link, time.Now().Add(-it.ago), context)
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ type Ref struct {
 	// Share is a share link's sealed files, as in the link; the other
 	// fields are empty. Package share reads it.
 	Share string
+	// Account, when set, is the provider (its ID) to open or read it
+	// with when several could, from lazysecrets list. It isn't part of
+	// the link.
+	Account string
 }

 // IsShare reports whether r is a share link.
@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ type Node struct {
 // alone isn't.
 func (n Node) keep() bool { return len(n.StarredBy) > 0 || n.Note != "" || n.Uses > 0 }

+// UsedLately reports whether the item was used within the last 90 days
+// (what Recent lists). Starred and noted records are kept longer, so a
+// use alone doesn't say.
+func (n Node) UsedLately(now time.Time) bool {
+	return !n.LastUsed.IsZero() && now.Sub(n.LastUsed) <= usageMaxAge
+}
+
 // StarredFor reports whether the item is starred for account.
 func (n Node) StarredFor(account string) bool { return slices.Contains(n.StarredBy, account) }

@@ -119,3 +119,15 @@ func TestStarsPerAccount(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("unstar alice: %v", n.StarredBy)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestUsedLately(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	for ago, want := range map[time.Duration]bool{time.Hour: true, 89 * 24 * time.Hour: true, 2 * 365 * 24 * time.Hour: false} {
+		if got := (Node{LastUsed: now.Add(-ago)}).UsedLately(now); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("used %v ago: %v", ago, got)
+		}
+	}
+	if (Node{}).UsedLately(now) {
+		t.Error("never used is lately")
+	}
+}
@@ -131,8 +131,15 @@ type Options struct {
 	HandlerSetup *HandlerSetup
 	// NoHistory stops counting uses of items for the Recent list.
 	NoHistory bool
+	// RecentIcon marks items used lately with ◷ in the lists
+	// (ui.recentIcon).
+	RecentIcon bool
 	// Open is a reference to open at startup (lazysecrets open <ref>).
 	Open *ref.Ref
+	// OpenAction, if set, is what to do with Open, rather than asking:
+	// go to it, and maybe copy or show its value (OpenActions). It ends in
+	// the list, like Go to, rather than on the details.
+	OpenAction string
 	// Styles, if set, replaces the default theme (styles.FromTheme), and
 	// DefaultFg the terminal's default text colour.
 	Styles    *styles.Styles
@@ -206,6 +213,9 @@ type Model struct {
 	statusW     int // the status pane's width: the left column's, zoomed or not
 	changelog   []panes.Field
 	cacheDirty  bool
+	// cacheDropped are cache keys deleted since the last save, so saving
+	// deletes them from the file too.
+	cacheDropped map[string]bool
 	sourcesAt    map[string]time.Time
 	placeDir     string
 	savedPlace   string // the link last saved as the place
@@ -283,6 +293,8 @@ type Model struct {
 	prompt     *modal               // popup that has the keyboard
 	linked     []provider.Container // vaults opened from links, this session
 	open       *ref.Ref             // reference to open at startup
+	recentIcon bool                 // mark items used lately (◷)
+	openAction string               // and what to do with it, or ask

 	shareKey   string      // the config's sharing.key
 	shareRules share.Rules // and sharing.keyRules
@@ -415,7 +427,8 @@ func New(providers []provider.Provider, opts Options) Model {
 	if m.store == nil {
 		m.store, _ = store.Load("")
 	}
-	m.sources = newSourcesList(iconSet, m.store)
+	m.recentIcon = opts.RecentIcon
+	m.sources = newSourcesList(iconSet, m.store, m.recentIcon)
 	m.sources.Empty = "no sources found"
 	m.collapsed = map[string]bool{}
 	m.flatSources = opts.FlatSources
@@ -447,7 +460,7 @@ func New(providers []provider.Provider, opts Options) Model {
 	}
 	m.defaultFg = opts.DefaultFg
 	m.help = newHelp(m.st)
-	m.open = opts.Open
+	m.open, m.openAction = opts.Open, opts.OpenAction
 	saved := m.store.Layout()
 	m.split, m.heights = saved.Split, saved.Heights

@@ -521,18 +534,26 @@ func (m Model) Init() tea.Cmd {
 		cmds = append(cmds, m.fetchLatest(false))
 	}
 	if m.open != nil {
-		r := *m.open
-		cmds = append(cmds, func() tea.Msg { return openRefMsg{r} })
+		msg := openRefMsg{ref: *m.open, action: m.openAction}
+		cmds = append(cmds, func() tea.Msg { return msg })
 	}
 	return tea.Batch(cmds...)
 }

-// openRefMsg starts opening a reference from outside the key handler.
-type openRefMsg struct{ ref ref.Ref }
+// openRefMsg starts opening a reference from outside the key handler:
+// asking what to do with it, or doing action (OpenActions).
+type openRefMsg struct {
+	ref    ref.Ref
+	action string
+}
+
+// OpenActions are what lazysecrets open --action takes, the Open link
+// menu's choices that go there.
+var OpenActions = map[string]linkAction{"go": actGo, "copy": actCopy, "show": actShow}

 // OpenLink is a message offering r in the Open link popup, for links
 // handed over by the link handler (Program.Send).
-func OpenLink(r ref.Ref) tea.Msg { return openRefMsg{r} }
+func OpenLink(r ref.Ref) tea.Msg { return openRefMsg{ref: r} }

 func (m Model) Update(msg tea.Msg) (tea.Model, tea.Cmd) {
 	var cmds []tea.Cmd
@@ -589,7 +610,11 @@ func (m Model) Update(msg tea.Msg) (tea.Model, tea.Cmd) {

 	case openRefMsg:
 		m.deferHandlerSetup() // the link first
+		if act, ok := OpenActions[msg.action]; ok && !msg.ref.IsShare() {
+			cmds = append(cmds, m.findRef(msg.ref, act))
+		} else {
 			cmds = append(cmds, m.offerRef("Open link", msg.ref, false))
+		}

 	case resolvedMsg:
 		m.handleResolved(msg)
@@ -666,7 +691,7 @@ func (m Model) Update(msg tea.Msg) (tea.Model, tea.Cmd) {
 			if src, ok := m.selectedSource(); ok {
 				m.logErrOf(src.Name, msg.err)
 			}
-			delete(m.cache.containers, msg.key)
+			uncache(&m, m.cache.containers, msg.key)
 			m.containers.SetError(msg.err)
 		} else {
 			m.cache.containers[msg.key] = entry[[]provider.Container]{msg.items, m.now()}
@@ -687,7 +712,7 @@ func (m Model) Update(msg tea.Msg) (tea.Model, tea.Cmd) {
 			if c, ok := m.containers.Selected(); ok {
 				m.logErrOf(c.Name, msg.err)
 			}
-			delete(m.cache.objects, msg.key)
+			uncache(&m, m.cache.objects, msg.key)
 			m.secrets.SetError(msg.err)
 		} else {
 			if msg.bound != nil {
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ func TestBackspaceGoesBack(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	// While typing a filter, backspace deletes a character instead.
 	d.keys("/")
-	d.typeText("apx")
+	d.typeText("api-x")
 	d.send(tea.KeyPressMsg{Code: tea.KeyBackspace})
 	if !d.m.secrets.Filtering() || d.m.secrets.Len() != 1 {
 		t.Errorf("backspace in filter: filtering=%v visible=%d", d.m.secrets.Filtering(), d.m.secrets.Len())
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ func TestFilter(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	d := newDriver(t)
 	d.keys("3", "/")
-	d.typeText("api")
+	d.typeText("api-k")
 	if d.m.secrets.Len() != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("visible = %d, want 1", d.m.secrets.Len())
 	}
@@ -684,9 +684,9 @@ func TestFilter(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	d.keys("esc") // leave filter mode, clearing the query
 	d.keys("/")
-	d.typeText("api")
+	d.typeText("api-k")
 	d.keys("enter", "esc") // apply, then esc clears the applied filter
-	if d.m.secrets.Len() != 3 {
+	if d.m.secrets.Len() != 4 {
 		t.Errorf("esc should clear the applied filter, visible = %d", d.m.secrets.Len())
 	}
 	if _, _, s := d.selected(); s != "api-key" {
@@ -698,13 +698,13 @@ func TestMoveWhileFiltering(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	d := newDriver(t)
 	d.keys("3", "/")
-	d.typeText("a") // all three secrets contain an a
-	if d.m.secrets.Len() != 3 {
+	d.typeText("a") // all four secrets contain an a
+	if d.m.secrets.Len() != 4 {
 		t.Fatalf("visible = %d", d.m.secrets.Len())
 	}
 	_, _, initial := d.selected() // kept from before filtering: the middle row
 	var seen []string
-	for _, k := range []rune{'j', 'j', 'k'} {
+	for _, k := range []rune{'j', 'j', 'j', 'k'} {
 		d.send(tea.KeyPressMsg{Code: k, Mod: tea.ModCtrl})
 		_, _, s := d.selected()
 		seen = append(seen, s)
@@ -712,9 +712,9 @@ func TestMoveWhileFiltering(t *testing.T) {
 	if !d.m.secrets.Filtering() {
 		t.Fatal("ctrl+j/k left filter mode")
 	}
-	// down to the bottom, stay there, back up to where it started
-	if seen[0] == initial || seen[1] != seen[0] || seen[2] != initial {
-		t.Errorf("from %q, ctrl+j, ctrl+j, ctrl+k selected %v", initial, seen)
+	// down to the bottom, stay there, back up one
+	if seen[0] == initial || seen[2] != seen[1] || seen[3] != seen[0] {
+		t.Errorf("from %q, ctrl+j ×3, ctrl+k selected %v", initial, seen)
 	}
 	if !strings.Contains(d.screen(), "ctrl+j/n down") {
 		t.Errorf("filter help missing ctrl+j:\n%s", d.screen())
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ func TestCopyAndRevealWhileFiltering(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	d := newDriver(t)
 	d.keys("3", "/")
-	d.typeText("api")
+	d.typeText("api-k")
 	d.send(tea.KeyPressMsg{Code: 'y', Mod: tea.ModCtrl})
 	if d.clip().content != "sk_live_51HxDEMO0000000000000000" {
 		t.Errorf("ctrl+y copied %q", d.clip().content)
@@ -1187,7 +1187,8 @@ func TestDetailsFollowFocus(t *testing.T) {
 func TestStatusLineCountsRepos(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	d := newDriver(t, fake.Azure(0), fake.Repos())
-	if line := strings.Split(d.screen(), "\n")[1]; !strings.Contains(line, "1 account · 3 repos") {
+	// The status line, not the pane, which an expired secret's ⚠ fills.
+	if line := ansi.Strip(d.m.statusLine()); !strings.Contains(line, "1 account · 3 repos") {
 		t.Errorf("status line: %q", line)
 	}
 	d = newDriver(t, fake.Azure(0))
@@ -1202,8 +1203,8 @@ func TestStatusPane(t *testing.T) {
 	d := newDriverOpts(t, Options{Version: "0.1.0", ConfigFiles: []string{"/cfg/config.yaml"}, StatePath: "/state/state.json",
 		OpenURL: func(u string) error { opened = append(opened, u); return nil }},
 		fake.Azure(0), signedOut{fake.Azure(0)})
-	if !strings.Contains(d.screen(), "2 accounts · 1 need sign-in") {
-		t.Errorf("status line:\n%s", d.screen())
+	if line := ansi.Strip(d.m.statusLine()); !strings.Contains(line, "2 accounts · 1 need sign-in") {
+		t.Errorf("status line: %q", line)
 	}
 	d.keys("0")
 	if d.m.focus != paneStatus {
@@ -1303,7 +1304,8 @@ func TestExpiringInStatus(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	d := newDriverOpts(t, Options{ExpiryWarning: 30 * 24 * time.Hour}, fake.Azure(0))
 	d.keys("3", "]", "]") // load kv-app-prod's certificates
-	if !strings.Contains(d.screen(), "⚠ 1 expiring") {
+	// old-tls and legacy-token.
+	if !strings.Contains(d.screen(), "⚠ 2 expiring") {
 		t.Errorf("status line:\n%s", d.screen())
 	}
 	d.keys("0")
@@ -67,10 +67,23 @@ func (m *Model) refreshShown(before []provider.Object) tea.Cmd {
 		return nil
 	}
 	m.detail.Refresh(s)
-	delete(m.cache.details, detailKey(s))
+	uncache(m, m.cache.details, detailKey(s))
 	return m.describe(s)
 }

+// uncache deletes key from a cache, and, at the next save, from the file.
+func uncache[T any](m *Model, c map[string]entry[T], key string) {
+	if _, ok := c[key]; !ok {
+		return
+	}
+	delete(c, key)
+	if m.cacheDropped == nil {
+		m.cacheDropped = map[string]bool{}
+	}
+	m.cacheDropped[key] = true
+	m.cacheDirty = true
+}
+
 // sameListing reports whether a and b list the same: what a list
 // says of an object, not what describing it adds.
 func sameListing(a, b provider.Object) bool {
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ref"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ui/panes"
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ func (m Model) expiringItems() []expiringItem {
 			row := sourceRowKey(p.ID(), src.ID)
 			for _, c := range m.cache.containers[row].value {
 				for _, t := range c.ObjectTypes() {
-					for _, o := range m.cache.objects[containerKey(c)+"|"+string(t)].value {
+					for _, o := range m.cache.objects[cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, t)].value {
 						if state, _ := m.expiry(o); state != notExpiring {
 							out = append(out, expiringItem{o, row})
 						}
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 package app

 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"time"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/expiry"
+
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 )

@@ -11,28 +12,18 @@ import (
 // list once they have expired (✗ expired) or will within the configured
 // warning period (⚠ 12d), and typing "expir" in the filter finds them.

-type expiryState int
+type expiryState = expiry.State

 const (
-	notExpiring expiryState = iota
-	expiresSoon
-	expired
+	notExpiring = expiry.None
+	expiresSoon = expiry.Soon
+	expired     = expiry.Expired
 )

 // expiry tells whether o has expired or will within the warning period,
 // and how long it has left.
 func (m Model) expiry(o provider.Object) (expiryState, time.Duration) {
-	if o.Expires.IsZero() {
-		return notExpiring, 0
-	}
-	left := o.Expires.Sub(m.now())
-	switch {
-	case left <= 0:
-		return expired, 0
-	case left <= m.expiryWarning:
-		return expiresSoon, left
-	}
-	return notExpiring, left
+	return expiry.Of(o.Expires, m.now(), m.expiryWarning)
 }

 // expiryWord is matched by the filter: "expired" or "expiring".
@@ -47,9 +38,4 @@ func (m Model) expiryWord(o provider.Object) string {
 }

 // daysLeft is a short "12d", or "5h" on the last day.
-func daysLeft(d time.Duration) string {
-	if d < 24*time.Hour {
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%dh", max(1, int(d.Hours())))
-	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%dd", int(d.Hours()/24))
-}
+func daysLeft(d time.Duration) string { return expiry.Left(d) }
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ package app
 import (
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
+	"time"

 	tea "charm.land/bubbletea/v2"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ref"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/store"
@@ -19,6 +21,22 @@ import (

 const star = "★ "

+// recentMark marks items used lately (Recent), with ui.recentIcon.
+const recentMark = "◷ "
+
+// marks is what goes before a list row's name: ★ when it's starred for
+// account and, with recent, ◷ when it was used lately.
+func marks(st styles.Styles, n store.Node, account string, recent bool, now time.Time) string {
+	var s string
+	if n.StarredFor(account) {
+		s = st.Favourite.Render(star)
+	}
+	if recent && n.UsedLately(now) {
+		s += st.Muted.Render(recentMark)
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
 func sourceKey(s provider.Source) string {
 	if r, err := ref.ForSource(s); err == nil {
 		return r.String()
@@ -94,9 +112,7 @@ func (m Model) containerRender(withSource bool) func(styles.Styles, provider.Con
 			}
 			line += sty.Muted.Render("  " + c.Detail)
 		}
-		if n.StarredFor(c.Source.Provider) {
-			line = sty.Favourite.Render(star) + line
-		}
+		line = marks(sty, n, c.Source.Provider, m.recentIcon, m.now()) + line
 		if withSource {
 			src := c.Source.Name
 			if account, ok := strings.CutPrefix(c.Source.ProviderLabel, string(c.Source.Kind)+" · "); ok {
@@ -116,9 +132,7 @@ func (m Model) objectRender() func(styles.Styles, provider.Object, int) string {
 		if o.Enabled != nil && !*o.Enabled {
 			line = sty.Muted.Render(o.Name + " (disabled)")
 		}
-		if n.StarredFor(o.Container.Source.Provider) {
-			line = sty.Favourite.Render(star) + line
-		}
+		line = marks(sty, n, o.Container.Source.Provider, m.recentIcon, m.now()) + line
 		switch state, left := m.expiry(o); state {
 		case expired:
 			line += " " + sty.Error.Render("✗ expired")
@@ -167,7 +181,7 @@ func (m *Model) rebind(c provider.Container) string {
 			m.linked[i].Source = c.Source
 		}
 	}
-	key := containerKey(c) + "|" + string(m.objType)
+	key := cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, m.objType)
 	if m.onLinks() {
 		m.containers.SetItems(m.linked)
 		m.containers.Select(containerKey(c))
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"

 	tea "charm.land/bubbletea/v2"
 	"charm.land/lipgloss/v2"
@@ -394,7 +395,7 @@ func TestStarWhileFiltering(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	d := newDriver(t)
 	d.keys("3", "/")
-	for _, r := range "api" {
+	for _, r := range "api-k" {
 		d.send(tea.KeyPressMsg{Code: r, Text: string(r)})
 	}
 	d.send(tea.KeyPressMsg{Code: 'f', Mod: tea.ModCtrl})
@@ -434,3 +435,20 @@ func TestStarIsPerAccount(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("favourites should list alice's star only: %q", labels)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestRecentIcon(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	mem, _ := store.Load("")
+	_ = mem.Use("lazysecrets://azure/"+kv+"/secrets/api-key", time.Now(), func(*store.Node) {})
+	d := newDriverOpts(t, Options{Store: mem, RecentIcon: true})
+	d.keys("3")
+	scr := d.screen()
+	if !strings.Contains(scr, "◷ api-key") || strings.Contains(scr, "◷ db-password") {
+		t.Errorf("want ◷ on api-key only:\n%s", scr)
+	}
+	off := newDriverOpts(t, Options{Store: mem})
+	off.keys("3")
+	if strings.Contains(off.screen(), "◷") {
+		t.Errorf("◷ without ui.recentIcon:\n%s", off.screen())
+	}
+}
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	tea "charm.land/bubbletea/v2"
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ui/panes"
 )
@@ -160,7 +161,7 @@ func (m Model) containerFields(c provider.Container) []panes.Field {
 	add("source", cmpOr(c.Source.ProviderLabel, string(c.Source.Kind))+" / "+c.Source.Name)
 	add("web", c.URL)
 	for _, t := range c.ObjectTypes() {
-		if e, ok := m.cache.objects[containerKey(c)+"|"+string(t)]; ok {
+		if e, ok := m.cache.objects[cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, t)]; ok {
 			add(strings.ToLower(string(t))+"s", fmt.Sprint(len(e.value)))
 		}
 	}
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ func (m *Model) storeEntries() (favs, recent []option) {
 	if m.history {
 		var used []string
 		for _, k := range keys {
-			if !nodes[k].LastUsed.IsZero() {
+			if nodes[k].UsedLately(m.now()) {
 				used = append(used, k)
 			}
 		}
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ type resolvedMsg struct {
 	act       linkAction
 	sourceRow string
 	others    []string // other accounts' rows that also found the vault
+	// find ends in the list, like Go to, not on the details: opened by a
+	// tool that found it (lazysecrets open --action, from fzf).
+	find    bool
 	choices []choice // several candidates: ask
 	linked  *provider.Container
 	err     error
@@ -218,6 +221,9 @@ func (m *Model) openSource(r ref.Ref) {
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	if row, ok := preferredRow(r, choices); ok {
+		choices = []choice{{sourceRow: row}}
+	}
 	switch len(choices) {
 	case 0:
 		m.flash = flash{text: "open: " + describeRef(r) + " isn't in your sources", isErr: true}
@@ -404,18 +410,59 @@ func (m *Model) handleResolved(msg resolvedMsg) {
 		for i := range msg.choices {
 			msg.choices[i].label = "Open in " + msg.choices[i].label
 		}
-		m.chooseSource("Scope "+msg.ref.Scope+" is in several workspaces", msg.ref, msg.act, msg.choices, true)
+		m.chooseSource("Scope "+msg.ref.Scope+" is in several workspaces", msg.ref, msg.act, msg.choices, !msg.find)
 	case len(msg.others) > 0:
 		var choices []choice
 		for _, row := range append([]string{msg.sourceRow}, msg.others...) {
 			choices = append(choices, choice{label: "Open with " + m.sourceLabel(row), sourceRow: row})
 		}
-		m.chooseSource("Several accounts can see "+msg.ref.ContainerName(), msg.ref, msg.act, choices, true)
+		if row, ok := preferredRow(msg.ref, choices); ok {
+			m.navResolved(msg, row)
+			return
+		}
+		m.chooseSource("Several accounts can see "+msg.ref.ContainerName(), msg.ref, msg.act, choices, !msg.find)
 	case msg.linked != nil:
 		m.addLinked(*msg.linked)
-		m.startLinkNav(msg.ref, msg.act, linksRowID)
+		m.navResolved(msg, linksRowID)
 	default:
-		m.startLinkNav(msg.ref, msg.act, msg.sourceRow)
+		m.navResolved(msg, msg.sourceRow)
+	}
+}
+
+// preferredRow is the choice under the account the reference asks for
+// (ref.Ref.Account), if it's one of them.
+func preferredRow(r ref.Ref, choices []choice) (string, bool) {
+	for _, c := range choices {
+		if r.Account != "" && providerOf(c.sourceRow) == r.Account {
+			return c.sourceRow, true
+		}
+	}
+	return "", false
+}
+
+// navResolved goes to what a resolved link points at, under row.
+func (m *Model) navResolved(msg resolvedMsg, row string) {
+	if msg.find {
+		m.startNav(msg.ref, msg.act, row)
+		return
+	}
+	m.startLinkNav(msg.ref, msg.act, row)
+}
+
+// findRef is openRef ending in the list, like Go to: for a link a tool
+// found (lazysecrets open --action).
+func (m *Model) findRef(r ref.Ref, act linkAction) tea.Cmd {
+	cmd := m.openRef(r, act)
+	if cmd == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return func() tea.Msg {
+		msg := cmd()
+		if rm, ok := msg.(resolvedMsg); ok {
+			rm.find = true
+			return rm
+		}
+		return msg
 	}
 }

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ func TestPasteWhileFilteringFilters(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	d := newDriver(t)
 	d.keys("3", "/")
-	d.send(tea.PasteMsg{Content: "api"})
+	d.send(tea.PasteMsg{Content: "api-k"})
 	if d.m.secrets.Len() != 1 || d.m.nav != nil {
 		t.Errorf("paste in filter: visible %d", d.m.secrets.Len())
 	}
@@ -203,8 +203,21 @@ func TestOpenPromptAndStartupOpen(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("open at startup didn't ask what to do")
 	}
 	d2.keys("o")
-	if _, _, s := d2.selected(); s != "api-key" {
-		t.Errorf("open at startup: selected %q", s)
+	if _, _, s := d2.selected(); s != "api-key" || d2.m.focus != paneDetail {
+		t.Errorf("open at startup: selected %q, focus %v, want the details", s, d2.m.focus)
+	}
+
+	// --action: no question, it does that.
+	d3 := newDriverOpts(t, Options{Open: &r, OpenAction: "go"})
+	if d3.m.prompt != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("--action go asked: %q", d3.m.prompt.title)
+	}
+	if _, _, s := d3.selected(); s != "api-key" || d3.m.focus != paneSecrets {
+		t.Errorf("--action go: selected %q, focus %v, want the secrets list, like Go to", s, d3.m.focus)
+	}
+	d4 := newDriverOpts(t, Options{Open: &r, OpenAction: "copy"})
+	if _, _, s := d4.selected(); s != "api-key" || d4.clip().content == "" {
+		t.Errorf("--action copy: selected %q, copied %q", s, d4.clip().content)
 	}
 }

@@ -305,6 +318,20 @@ func TestOpenAsksWhichAccount(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("j enter picked %q", c.Source.Provider)
 	}

+	// lazysecrets open --account: no question, that account.
+	r, _ := ref.Parse("lazysecrets://azure/" + kv + "/secrets/api-key")
+	r.Account = "Azure:bob@example.com/t1"
+	d.send(OpenLink(r))
+	if d.m.prompt != nil && d.m.prompt.title == "Open link" {
+		d.keys("o")
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(d.screen(), "Several accounts can see") {
+		t.Fatalf("asked, with an account given:\n%s", d.screen())
+	}
+	if c, _ := d.m.containers.Selected(); c.Source.Provider != r.Account {
+		t.Errorf("--account opened via %q", c.Source.Provider)
+	}
+
 	// Opening into a folded account unfolds it.
 	d.keys("1", "g") // alice's header
 	d.keys("enter")  // fold it
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 package app

 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"time"

 	tea "charm.land/bubbletea/v2"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ref"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/store"
@@ -23,58 +21,28 @@ import (
 // And where lazysecrets was left, per folder it ran in, goes in the store,
 // to go back there on the next start.

-// cacheFileVersion is the file's format; a file of another version is
-// ignored, and replaced on the next save.
-const cacheFileVersion = 1
-
-// cacheMaxAge drops what hasn't been loaded again for this long.
-const cacheMaxAge = 30 * 24 * time.Hour
-
 // persistEvery is how often a changed cache is saved while running, so
 // little is lost if lazysecrets is killed rather than quit.
 const persistEvery = 30 * time.Second

-type cacheFile struct {
-	Version    int                                      `json:"version"`
-	Sources    map[string]stamped[[]provider.Source]    `json:"sources,omitempty"` // by provider ID
-	Containers map[string]stamped[[]provider.Container] `json:"containers,omitempty"`
-	Objects    map[string]stamped[[]provider.Object]    `json:"objects,omitempty"`
-	Details    map[string]stamped[provider.Object]      `json:"details,omitempty"`
-	Cursor     map[string]string                        `json:"cursor,omitempty"`
-}
-
-type stamped[T any] struct {
-	At    time.Time `json:"at"`
-	Value T         `json:"value"`
-}
-
 type persistTickMsg struct{}

 type persistedMsg struct{ err error }

 // keepCached reports whether a cache key's account still exists and
 // isn't a repo: every key starts with the provider ID.
-func (m *Model) keepCached(key string) bool {
-	id, _ := splitSourceRow(key)
-	p, ok := m.byID[id]
-	return ok && p.Kind() != provider.KindRepo
-}
+func (m *Model) keepCached(key string) bool { return m.keepProvider(cachefile.ProviderOf(key)) }
+
+func (m *Model) keepProvider(id string) bool { return cachefile.Keep(m.providers)(id) }

 // loadCacheFile fills the cache from the file, leaving out what's too
 // old or belongs to accounts that aren't signed in any more.
 func (m *Model) loadCacheFile() {
-	b, err := os.ReadFile(m.cachePath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return
-	}
-	var f cacheFile
-	if json.Unmarshal(b, &f) != nil || f.Version != cacheFileVersion {
-		return
-	}
+	f := cachefile.Read(m.cachePath)
 	now := m.now()
-	recent := func(at time.Time) bool { return now.Sub(at) < cacheMaxAge }
+	recent := func(at time.Time) bool { return now.Sub(at) < cachefile.MaxAge }
 	for id, e := range f.Sources {
-		if m.keepCached(id+"|") && recent(e.At) {
+		if m.keepProvider(id) && recent(e.At) {
 			m.sourceResults[id] = sourcesMsg{gen: m.sourcesGen, provider: id, sources: e.Value}
 			m.sourcesAt[id] = e.At
 		}
@@ -102,33 +70,27 @@ func (m *Model) loadCacheFile() {
 }

 // cacheSnapshot is the cache as the file holds it.
-func (m *Model) cacheSnapshot() cacheFile {
-	f := cacheFile{
-		Version:    cacheFileVersion,
-		Sources:    map[string]stamped[[]provider.Source]{},
-		Containers: map[string]stamped[[]provider.Container]{},
-		Objects:    map[string]stamped[[]provider.Object]{},
-		Details:    map[string]stamped[provider.Object]{},
-		Cursor:     map[string]string{},
-	}
+func (m *Model) cacheSnapshot() cachefile.File {
+	f := cachefile.New()
+	f.Dropped, m.cacheDropped = m.cacheDropped, nil
 	for id, r := range m.sourceResults {
-		if r.err == nil && m.keepCached(id+"|") {
-			f.Sources[id] = stamped[[]provider.Source]{m.sourcesAt[id], r.sources}
+		if r.err == nil && m.keepProvider(id) {
+			f.Sources[id] = cachefile.Stamped[[]provider.Source]{At: m.sourcesAt[id], Value: r.sources}
 		}
 	}
 	for k, e := range m.cache.containers {
 		if m.keepCached(k) {
-			f.Containers[k] = stamped[[]provider.Container]{e.at, e.value}
+			f.Containers[k] = cachefile.Stamped[[]provider.Container]{At: e.at, Value: e.value}
 		}
 	}
 	for k, e := range m.cache.objects {
 		if m.keepCached(k) {
-			f.Objects[k] = stamped[[]provider.Object]{e.at, e.value}
+			f.Objects[k] = cachefile.Stamped[[]provider.Object]{At: e.at, Value: e.value}
 		}
 	}
 	for k, e := range m.cache.details {
 		if m.keepCached(k) {
-			f.Details[k] = stamped[provider.Object]{e.at, e.value}
+			f.Details[k] = cachefile.Stamped[provider.Object]{At: e.at, Value: e.value}
 		}
 	}
 	for k, v := range m.cache.cursor {
@@ -139,28 +101,11 @@ func (m *Model) cacheSnapshot() cacheFile {
 	return f
 }

-// writeCacheFile writes f atomically, readable by the user only.
-func writeCacheFile(path string, f cacheFile) error {
-	b, err := json.Marshal(f)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0o700); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	tmp, err := os.CreateTemp(filepath.Dir(path), ".cache-*.json")
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer os.Remove(tmp.Name()) // after a successful rename, nothing there
-	if _, err := tmp.Write(b); err != nil {
-		tmp.Close()
-		return err
-	}
-	if err := tmp.Close(); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return os.Rename(tmp.Name(), path)
+// saveCache saves f, merged with the file (lazysecrets list may have
+// loaded more since), from any goroutine.
+func (m *Model) saveCache(f cachefile.File) func() error {
+	path, keep, now := m.cachePath, cachefile.Keep(m.providers), m.now()
+	return func() error { return cachefile.Save(path, f, keep, now) }
 }

 // persistTick saves the cache, and where lazysecrets is, in the
@@ -169,8 +114,8 @@ func (m *Model) persistTick() tea.Cmd {
 	cmds := []tea.Cmd{tea.Tick(persistEvery, func(time.Time) tea.Msg { return persistTickMsg{} })}
 	if m.cacheDirty && m.cachePath != "" {
 		m.cacheDirty = false
-		f, path := m.cacheSnapshot(), m.cachePath
-		cmds = append(cmds, func() tea.Msg { return persistedMsg{writeCacheFile(path, f)} })
+		save := m.saveCache(m.cacheSnapshot())
+		cmds = append(cmds, func() tea.Msg { return persistedMsg{save()} })
 	}
 	if p, ok := m.place(); ok && m.placeDir != "" && p.Link != m.savedPlace {
 		m.savedPlace = p.Link
@@ -185,7 +130,7 @@ func (m *Model) persistTick() tea.Cmd {
 func (m Model) Persist() error {
 	var errs []error
 	if m.cachePath != "" {
-		errs = append(errs, writeCacheFile(m.cachePath, m.cacheSnapshot()))
+		errs = append(errs, m.saveCache(m.cacheSnapshot())())
 	}
 	if m.placeDir != "" {
 		if p, ok := m.place(); ok {
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 package app

 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider/fake"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ref"
@@ -80,15 +82,16 @@ func TestCacheFileDropsOldAndSignedOut(t *testing.T) {
 	file := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "cache.json")
 	az := fake.Azure(0)
 	now := time.Now()
-	f := cacheFile{
-		Version: cacheFileVersion,
-		Containers: map[string]stamped[[]provider.Container]{
-			az.ID() + "|recent":     {now.Add(-time.Hour), []provider.Container{{Name: "kv-recent"}}},
-			az.ID() + "|old":        {now.Add(-cacheMaxAge - time.Hour), []provider.Container{{Name: "kv-old"}}},
-			"Azure:gone@x/t|recent": {now, []provider.Container{{Name: "kv-gone"}}},
+	f := cachefile.File{
+		Version: cachefile.Version,
+		Containers: map[string]cachefile.Stamped[[]provider.Container]{
+			az.ID() + "|recent":     {At: now.Add(-time.Hour), Value: []provider.Container{{Name: "kv-recent"}}},
+			az.ID() + "|old":        {At: now.Add(-cachefile.MaxAge - time.Hour), Value: []provider.Container{{Name: "kv-old"}}},
+			"Azure:gone@x/t|recent": {At: now, Value: []provider.Container{{Name: "kv-gone"}}},
 		},
 	}
-	if err := writeCacheFile(file, f); err != nil {
+	b, _ := json.Marshal(f) // as an older lazysecrets left it
+	if err := os.WriteFile(file, b, 0o600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	d := newDriverOpts(t, Options{CacheFile: file}, az)
@@ -97,7 +100,7 @@ func TestCacheFileDropsOldAndSignedOut(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("dropped a recent entry")
 	}
 	if _, ok := c[az.ID()+"|old"]; ok {
-		t.Error("kept an entry older than cacheMaxAge")
+		t.Error("kept an entry older than cachefile.MaxAge")
 	}
 	if _, ok := c["Azure:gone@x/t|recent"]; ok {
 		t.Error("kept an entry of an account that isn't signed in")
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 )

 // containerKey identifies a container in the UI and caches. The same vault
 // seen through two accounts must not share cached lists, since each
 // account may see different things.
-func containerKey(c provider.Container) string { return c.Source.Provider + "|" + c.ID }
+func containerKey(c provider.Container) string { return cachefile.ContainerKey(c) }

 // providerFor finds the provider instance a source came from. Sources
 // remembered from an earlier run (favourites) may name an account that
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (

 	tea "charm.land/bubbletea/v2"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ref"
 )
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ func (m *Model) searchEntries() (sources, items []option) {
 					return nil
 				}, reload)
 				for _, t := range []provider.ObjectType{provider.TypeSecret, provider.TypeKey, provider.TypeCertificate} {
-					for _, o := range m.cache.objects[containerKey(c)+"|"+string(t)].value {
+					for _, o := range m.cache.objects[cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, t)].value {
 						r, err := ref.ForObject(o, "")
 						if err != nil {
 							continue
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ func (m *Model) coverageOf(in providerFilter) coverage {
 			}
 			for _, v := range e.value {
 				c.vaults++
-				key := containerKey(v) + "|" + string(provider.TypeSecret)
+				key := cachefile.ObjectsKey(v, provider.TypeSecret)
 				if objs, ok := m.cache.objects[key]; ok {
 					c.vaultsLoaded++
 					c.secrets += len(objs.value)
@@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ func (m *Model) queueSource(src provider.Source, force bool) {
 // queueContainer queues loading c's secrets, unless loaded lately and not
 // force.
 func (m *Model) queueContainer(c provider.Container, row string, force bool) {
-	key := containerKey(c) + "|" + string(provider.TypeSecret)
+	key := cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, provider.TypeSecret)
 	if e, ok := m.cache.objects[key]; ok && e.fresh(m.now()) && !force {
 		return
 	}
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ func (m *Model) handleCrawl(msg crawlMsg) tea.Cmd {
 	m.crawl.active--
 	key := msg.job.row
 	if msg.job.container != nil {
-		key = containerKey(*msg.job.container) + "|" + string(provider.TypeSecret)
+		key = cachefile.ObjectsKey(*msg.job.container, provider.TypeSecret)
 	}
 	delete(m.crawl.pending, key)
 	switch {
@@ -365,7 +366,7 @@ func (m *Model) sourceMark(row string) string {
 	}
 	loaded, loading := 0, false
 	for _, c := range e.value {
-		key := containerKey(c) + "|" + string(provider.TypeSecret)
+		key := cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, provider.TypeSecret)
 		loading = loading || m.crawl.pending[key]
 		if _, ok := m.cache.objects[key]; ok || m.crawl.failed[key] {
 			loaded++
@@ -386,7 +387,7 @@ func (m *Model) sourceMark(row string) string {
 // (✗) or are loading (◌): whether a subscription is loaded says whether
 // its vaults are searchable.
 func (m *Model) vaultMark(c provider.Container) string {
-	key := containerKey(c) + "|" + string(provider.TypeSecret)
+	key := cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, provider.TypeSecret)
 	switch {
 	case m.crawl.pending[key]:
 		return m.st.Muted.Render("◌")
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"charm.land/lipgloss/v2"
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/match"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ref"
@@ -617,7 +618,7 @@ func (m Model) loadHint() string {
 	}
 	loaded := 0
 	for _, c := range e.value {
-		key := containerKey(c) + "|" + string(provider.TypeSecret)
+		key := cachefile.ObjectsKey(c, provider.TypeSecret)
 		if _, ok := m.cache.objects[key]; ok || m.crawl.failed[key] {
 			loaded++
 		}
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
+	"time"

+	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/cachefile"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/provider"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/store"
 	"git.kebcloud.no/keb/lazysecrets/internal/ui/icons"
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ type sourceRow struct {

 // sourceRowKey joins a provider ID and a source ID. "|" doesn't occur in
 // either; provider IDs contain "/" (Azure:user/tenant).
-func sourceRowKey(providerID, sourceID string) string { return providerID + "|" + sourceID }
+func sourceRowKey(providerID, sourceID string) string { return cachefile.Row(providerID, sourceID) }

 func splitSourceRow(row string) (providerID, sourceID string) {
 	providerID, sourceID, _ = strings.Cut(row, "|")
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ func sourceRowID(r sourceRow) string {
 	return sourceRowKey(r.provider, r.source.ID)
 }

-func newSourcesList(iconSet icons.Set, mem *store.Store) panes.List[sourceRow] {
+func newSourcesList(iconSet icons.Set, mem *store.Store, recent bool) panes.List[sourceRow] {
 	return panes.NewList("[1] Sources", panes.Item[sourceRow]{
 		ID: sourceRowID,
 		// Headers have no filter text, so filtering shows just sources.
@@ -78,8 +80,8 @@ func newSourcesList(iconSet icons.Set, mem *store.Store) panes.List[sourceRow] {
 			node := mem.Node(sourceKey(r.source))
 			kind := st.Kind(r.group)
 			starred := ""
-			if r.kind == rowSource && node.StarredFor(r.source.Provider) {
-				starred = st.Favourite.Render(star)
+			if r.kind == rowSource {
+				starred = marks(st, node, r.source.Provider, recent, time.Now())
 			}
 			switch {
 			case r.kind == rowLinks:
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ╭─ [0] lazysecrets ─────────────╮╭─ platform-prod ─────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
-│ 2 accounts                    ││ name       platform-prod                                        │
+│ ⚠ 1 expiring · 2 accounts     ││ name       platform-prod                                        │
 ╰───────────────────────────────╯│ ID         sub-prod                                             │
 ╭─ [1] Sources - Favourites ────╮│ web        https://portal.azure.com/#resource/subscriptions/sub…│
 │ ▾ Azure (2)                   ││ vaults     3                                                    │
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
 ╭─ [3] Secrets - Keys - Certs ──╮│                                                                 │
 │ db-password                   ││                                                                 │
 │ api-key                       ││                                                                 │
-│ legacy-token (disabled)       ││                                                                 │
+│ legacy-token ✗ expired        ││                                                                 │
+│ smtp-password (disabled)      ││                                                                 │
 │                               ││                                                                 │
 │                               ││                                                                 │
 │                               ││                                                                 │
@@ -28,6 +29,5 @@
 │                               ││                                                                 │
 │                               ││                                                                 │
 │                               ││                                                                 │
-│                               ││                                                                 │
-╰────────────────────── 1 of 3 ─╯╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1 of 4 ─╯
+╰────────────────────── 1 of 4 ─╯╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1 of 4 ─╯
 enter open • ctrl+s search • s copy link • S share • f star • F favourites • … • ? help • q quit
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ type Set struct {
 	Repo       string
 	Encrypted  string // an encrypted file (SOPS)
 	PlainFile  string // a plain text secrets file (.env)
+	Note       string // has a note (lazysecrets list)
 }

 // None renders no icons.
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ var NerdFont = Set{
 	Repo:       "\U000F02A2", // md-git
 	Encrypted:  "\U000F033E", // md-lock
 	PlainFile:  "\U000F0214", // md-file
+	Note:       "\U000F09ED",
 }

 // Prefix returns the icon for kind followed by a space, or "" if the set has
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
keb	db4d64012d	fix: review findings for lazysecrets list: recent means the last 90 days, cache saves lock and keep deletions and the TUI's cursors, failed lists aren't retried, one expiry rule CI / Checks (pull_request) Successful in 40s Details PR title / Conventional title (pull_request) Successful in 2s Details	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	ea58530068	chore: updated docs	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	552abc368e	docs: links.md is sharing.md	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	1eb2f21588	test: --demo's disabled smtp-password, with its note, is in kv-app-prod	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	0a3a07d5cf	test: --demo's smtp-password is disabled, with a note why	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	4764208e04	test: --demo's legacy-token is expired, no longer disabled too	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	593d83fc25	feat: --demo stars platform-prod for alice too, and api-key expires soon	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	003f149690	feat: lazysecrets list's JSON has each entry's config reference and web page	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	c80a84cada	feat: lazysecrets list puts the note icon before the note, not in the marks	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	1c5a6a5087	feat: lazysecrets list's note mark is a Nerd Font note, ✎ without icons	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	5946f855bd	feat: lazysecrets list marks entries with a note (✎)	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	824f7249c3	feat: lazysecrets list prints notes, and --demo has a couple	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	2c9c37f809	feat: lazysecrets list merges error and expiry into one status field	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	37164158ca	feat: lazysecrets list marks what's wrong (✗) or due (⚠) by the icon, and writes expired or expires in 4d	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	4473e037f8	test: --demo's emergency-admin expires soon	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	2db3d28d6d	feat: lazysecrets list says expired or how soon, as the TUI does, in a field of its own	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	e49a2d8b53	test: --demo's legacy-token has expired too	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	94aa74b05d	feat: lazysecrets list right-aligns the marks by the icon, so names line up	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	419a5f3047	feat: lazysecrets list's marks take space only when present	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	c548688715	feat: --demo has expired, disabled and expiring secrets	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	b4e4c1515b	feat: lazysecrets list marks expiring and expired secrets, and its JSON has expires and enabled	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	33fa064104	feat: ui.recentIcon marks items used lately with ◷, and lazysecrets list --recent	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	33a9b0864d	feat: lazysecrets list's JSON says when an entry was last used, and how often	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	0e4580f245	feat: --demo also stars a subscription and a repo file	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	46af233bd3	feat: lazysecrets list puts the star and icon in a field of their own, so ^ searches match names	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	3bc0fc8fd6	feat: --demo starts with a few starred and recently used secrets	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	4c822e42f1	feat: lazysecrets list's --starred-icon is --stars	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	4cb40a1598	feat: lazysecrets list shows stars by default	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	77e3fcd551	feat: lazysecrets list marks starred and recent entries, and --starred-icon shows the stars	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	50156d706e	feat: lazysecrets list puts why a list failed in a column of its own	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	b0ea217d87	docs: get and list move to their own page, integration.md	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	470f0c11e4	docs: the fzf example copies on ctrl-y and copies and closes on ctrl-x	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	e8d3a3337a	docs: the fzf example copies and closes on ctrl-y, copies and stays on alt-y	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	bdf949339b	feat: lazysecrets open --action ends in the secrets list, like Go to	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	a4002a785c	feat: lazysecrets open --action goes, copies or shows without asking	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	b05d19209c	feat: lazysecrets list prints the account, and open and get take it (--account)	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	1f330bc619	feat: lazysecrets list's text lines start with the kind	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	572cea8351	docs: the fzf example for lazysecrets list hides the link and binds open and copy	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	3734989b15	fix: lazysecrets list keeps the provider icon on error lines	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	24b38d7321	fix: lazysecrets list keeps each entry on one line, errors to their first	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	7b377fd468	feat: lazysecrets list shows unreadable lists as red ✗ lines, and filters by kind	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	baee1dfe61	fix: lazysecrets list puts the name first, and keeps errors out of fzf	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	e99462bd21	feat: lazysecrets list colours names from the theme, with icons	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00
keb	b1455451e6	feat: lazysecrets list prints every source, vault and secret, for fzf and editor pickers	2026-10-14 21:24:01 +02:00